River and Suspended Sediment Discharge into Byam Channel, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: McLaren, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Hydrology; River discharges; Rivers; Sediment transport; Suspended solids; Byam Channel; Nunavut; Byam Martin Island; Melville Island; N.W.T./Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Canada; Bathurst Island; Martin Island; Bridport Inlet; Arctic; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65567

During 1974, a stream from a small drainage basin (117 km²) on the east coast of Melville Island discharged approximately 1.63 × 10,000,000 cubic m water containing 7.08 × 10,000,000 kg suspended sediment. Because nearby basins show hydrological similarity, these data can be extrapolated to...