Palaeoenvironmental history of the last six centuries in the Nettilling Lake area (Baffin Island, Canada) : a multi-proxy analysis

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Beaudoin, Anne, Pienitz, Reinhard, Francus, Pierre, Zdanowicz, Christian, St-Onge, Guillaume
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; PALEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION; GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD; DEVON ISLAND; ICE; CAP; VARVED SEDIMENTS; BEAR LAKE; DYNAMICS; VARIABILITY; NUNAVUT; RECORD; Baffin Island; lake sediments; "Little Ice Age' environment interaction; Nettilling Lake; palaeoclimate; Penny Ice Cap; Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Devon Island; Island Lake; Nunavut; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8761143; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8761143; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616645937; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8761143/file/8761144

The Baffin Island region in the eastern Canadian Arctic has recently experienced a rapid warming, possibly unprecedented in millennia. To investigate the response of freshwater environments to this warming and place it in a secular perspective, we analyzed a 90-cm-long sediment core from Nettilling...