Lateral Variations in Sediment Provenance and Grain Size along the Baffin Island Slope

• Main Author: Klein, Anna
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2016
• Subjects: Home Bay; XRD; magnetic susceptibility; IRD; Baffin Bay; Pond Inlet; Geology; Geomorphology; Glaciology; Other Earth Sciences; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Arctic; Baffin Island; Foxe Basin; Baffin; Home bay; Magnetic susceptibility; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/honr_theses/1107; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2346&context=honr_theses

Baffin Bay is a 689,000 km­­2 basin linking the Arctic and the North Atlantic oceans. Nearby ice sheets and their ice streams are responsible for eroding, transporting, and depositing sediment of various size fractions on the sea floor. For over thirty years, geologists have known of the presence of...