Late-Holocene Mass Movements in High Arctic East Lake, Melville Island (Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago)

• Main Authors: Normandeau, Alexandre, Joyal, Gabriel, Lajeunesse, Patrick, Francus, Pierre, Lamoureux, Scott, Lapointe, Franc¸ois
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Canadian High Arctic; Swath Bathymetry; Mass Movements; Paleoclimate; Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Lake; Cape Bounty; Lake Melville; East Lake; Arctic Archipelago; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14588; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_31

East Lake, located at Cape Bounty (Melville Island, Canadian High Arctic), was mapped using a high-resolution swath bathymetric sonar and a 12 kHz sub-bottom profiler, allowing for the first time the imaging of widespread occurrence of mass movement deposits (MMDs) in a Canadian High Arctic Lake. Ma...