Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Quaternary Ice Sheet Evolution on Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island

• Main Author: Pendleton, Simon Lewis
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2019
• Subjects: arctic; cosmogenic exposure dating; paleoclimate; radiocarbon dating; Geology; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cumberland Peninsula; Baffin; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Tundra
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/geol_gradetds/164; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=geol_gradetds

Arctic temperatures are increasing faster than the Northern Hemisphere average due to strong positive feedbacks unique to polar regions. However, the degree to which recent Arctic warming is unprecedented remains a topic of debate. Because Arctic glacier dimensions are dominantly controlled by summe...