Babbage River delta and lagoon : hydrology and sedimentology of an Arctic estuarine system

• Main Author: Forbes, Donald Lawrence
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1981
• Subjects: Estuarine oceanography > Yukon Territory > Babbage River Estuary; Estuarine sediments > Yukon Territory > Babbage River Estuary; Babbage River Estuary (Yukon); Arctic; Babbage River; Yukon; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22782

Inputs, transfer processes, and storage characteristics of water and sediment have been investigated in a 40-km² estuarine system on the central Yukon coast. The setting is transgressive, microtidal, and high-latitude (69°N). The Babbage Estuary system can be subdivided into fluvial, tidal-distribut...