The Impacts of Diamond Mining to Peatlands in the James Bay Lowlands

• Main Author: Whittington, Peter
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2013
• Subjects: Peatlands; aquifer dewatering; Hudson James Bay Lowlands; Hydrology; Geography; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Tyrrell; Ice Sheet; James Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7352

Approximately 7000 to 8000 years ago when Hudson Bay became ice-free the Tyrrell Sea flooded the Hudson basin and deposited fine grained marine sediments overlaying the previous glacial tills. Coincident with the ablation of the ice sheet isostatic rebound occurred causing regression of the Tyrell S...