Holocene Emergence of the South and East Coasts of Melville Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: McLaren, P., Barnett, D.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1978
• Subjects: Glacial epoch; Glacial landforms; Radiocarbon dating; Deglaciation; Melville Island; N.W.T./Nunavut; Winter Harbour region; N.W.T; Canada; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Winter Harbour; Arctic; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65721

Twenty-five radiocarbon dates from the coast of Melville Island show that there has been up to 100 m of Holocene emergence. This evidence of post-glacial rebound suggests there was significant late-Wisconsin glacier cover on or near the island. The Winter Harbour moraine on the south coast is though...