A diatom-based Holocene paleoenvironmental record from a lake on Boothia Peninsula, central mid-Arctic, Nunavut, Canada.

• Main Author: LeBlanc, Michelle.
• Other Authors: Gajewski, Konrad
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2002
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Arctic; Boothia Peninsula; Canada; Nunavut; Climate change; Magnetic susceptibility
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6414; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11261

An important source of information about climate change comes from sedimentary deposits from the arctic region. However, there are few lacustrine fossil records from the central mid Arctic region of Canada. A 485 cm sediment core, from a lake unofficially called JR01, Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, yie...