Maximum Postglacial Marine Submergence in Southern Melville Peninsula, N.W.T.

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Sim, Victor W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1961
• Subjects: Active layer; Gore Bay; Haviland Bay; Jenness River; Lefroy Bay; Prince Albert Hills; Arctic; Melville Peninsula
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66730

In a recent article the author discussed the limit of postglacial marine submergence in the northern part of Melville Peninsula. It was suggested that the marine limit in the area, as determined by a number of observations using four different criteria, varied between 450 and 500 feet. Of these four...