Deglacial to postglacial history of Nares Strait, Northwest Greenland: a marine perspective from Kane Basin

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: E. Georgiadis, J. Giraudeau, P. Martinez, P. Lajeunesse, G. St-Onge, S. Schmidt, G. Massé
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Buttress; Greenland; Kane; Kennedy Channel; Nares; Washington Land; Baffin; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Kane Basin; Kennedy channel; Lincoln Sea; Nares strait; Sea ice; Washington land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1991-2018; https://www.clim-past.net/14/1991/2018/cp-14-1991-2018.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/4427cce5fd064ef7ae591df019d19829

A radiocarbon-dated marine sediment core retrieved in Kane Basin, central Nares Strait, was analysed to constrain the timing of the postglacial opening of this Arctic gateway and its Holocene evolution. This study is based on a set of sedimentological and geochemical proxies of changing sedimentary...