Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
First published in 1985, Quaternary Environments represents the culmination of Quaternary research in the region of Baffin Island, Baffin Bay and West Greenland over a period of twenty years and it will serve as a timely and complementary balance to the paleo- oceanographic studies in the NE North Atlantic.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (803 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781040087367
Series Statement:
Routledge Revivals Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=31344391
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I Introduction to Quaternary Studies and Present Environment -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Quaternary Studies -- Chapter 2 Environmental Background -- Part II Glacial Landforms and Sediments -- Chapter 3 The Patterns of Glacial Erosion Across the Eastern Canadian Arctic -- Chapter 4 The Fiords of Baffin Island: Description and Classification -- Chapter 5 Grain-size Characteristics of Quaternary Sediments, Baffin Island Region -- Chapter 6 Geology of the Baffin Island Shelf -- Survey Part II -- Part III Quaternary Paleoceanographic and Ice Core Records -- Chapter 7 Climatic and Oceanographic Changes Over the Past 400,000 Years: Evidence From Deep-sea Cores on Baffin Bay and Davis Strait -- Chapter 8 Northwest Labrador Sea Stratigraphy, Sand Input and Paleoceanography during the last 160,000 Years -- Chapter 9 Evidence for a Subpolar Influence in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay During Marine Isotopic Stage 2 -- Chapter 10 Marine Palynology of Baffin Bay -- Chapter 11 The Devon Island Ice Core and the Glacial Record -- Survey Part III -- Part IV Pleistocene Glacial and Nonglacial Stratigraphy -- Chapter 12 Weathering and Soil Development on Baffin Island -- Chapter 13 Late Cenozoic Marine Deposits of East Baffin Island and E. Greenland: Microbiostratigraphy, Correlation, Age -- Chapter 14 Aminostratigraphy of Baffin Island Shell-bearing Deposits -- Chapter 15 An Outline of Glacial History of Bylot Island, District of Franklin, N.W.T. -- Chapter 16 A Review of the Quaternary Geology of Western Greenland -- Chapter 17 Pre-Holocene Pollen and Molluscan Records From Eastern Baffin Island -- Chapter 18 Late and Mid-Foxe Glaciation of Southern Baffin Island.
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Chapter 19 Moraines and Proglacial Lake Shorelines, Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island -- Survey Part IV -- Part V Holocene Sea Levels and Climate -- Chapter 20 A Numerical Model of Postglacial Relative Sea Level Change Near Baffin Island -- Chapter 21 Holocene Sea Level Variations Within Frobisher Bay -- Chapter 22 The Holocene Record From Baffin Island: Modern and Fossil Pollen Studies -- Chapter 23 Holocene Pollen Records from West Greenland -- Chapter 24 Neoglacial Moraines on Baffin Island -- Chapter 25 Environment and Prehistory, Baffin Island -- Chapter 26 Paleoclimatology of the Baffin Bay Region -- Survey Part V.
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