1st Edition
Quaternary Environments Eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and Western Greenland
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. The region of Baffin Island, Baffin Bay and West Greenland is probably the best place in the world to examine the interactions between ice, land and oceans on timescales of a few hundred to many thousands of years.
Two introductory chapters outline the history of research and the physical background. In Part II the evidence for glacial erosion and deposition over the eastern Canadian Arctic is examined and the history of the Baffin Island continental shelf is described. Part III deals with the paleo- oceanography of Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea through an examination of deep-sea cores dated by several different methods. In Part IV there is a comprehensive account of the stratigraphy of Baffin Island, Bylot Island, and West Greenland, from the Pliocene to the late Wisconsin. Part V examines the climatic effects of the past 10,000 years, considering evidence from pollen analysis, glacier fluctuations, changes of sea level and the response of early (Eskimo) man.
This important volume will interest all quaternary scientists, especially those in glaciology, glacial geology, marine geology, and geomorphology.
Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Part I: Introduction to Quaternary Studies and Present Environment 1. Introduction to Quaternary Studies J. T. Andrews and S. Funder 2. Environmental Background J. D. Jacobs, J. T. Andrews, and S. Funder Part II: Glacial Landforms and Sediments 3. The Patterns of Glacial Erosion Across the Eastern Canadian Arctic J. T. Andrews, P. Clark and J. A. Stravers 4. The Fiords of Baffin Island: Description and Classification E. K. Dowdeswell and J. T. Andrews 5. Green Size Characteristics of Quaternary Sediments, Baffin Island Region J. T. Andrews 6. Geology Of the Baffin Island Shelf B. Maclean Survey Part II Part III: Quaternary Paleoceanographic and Ice Core Records 7. Climatic and Oceanographic Changes over the Past 400,000 Years: Evidence from Deep Sea Course on Baffin Bay and Davis Strait A. E. Aksu 8. Northwest Labrador Sea Stratigraphy, Sand Input and Paleoceanography During the last 160,000 Years R. H. Fillon 9. Evidence for a Subpolar Influence in The Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay During Marine Isotopic Stage 2 R. H. Fillon and A. E. Aksu 10. Marine Palynology of Baffin Bay P. J. Mudie and S. K. Short 11. The Devon Island Ice Core and The Glacial Record R. M. Koerner and D. A. Fisher Survey Part III Part IV: Pleistocene Glacial and Nonglacial Stratigraphy 12. Weathering and Soil Development on Baffin Island W. W. Locke, III 13. Late Cenozoic Marine Deposits of East Baffin Island and E. Greenland: Microbiostratigraphy, Correlation, Age R. W. Feyling-Hanssen 14. Amino Stratigraphy of Baffin Island Shell- Bearing Deposits G. H. Miller 15. An Outline of Glacial History of Bylot Island, District of Franklin, N.W.T. R. A. Klassen 16. A Review of the Quaternary Geology of Western Greenland M. Kelly 17. Pre- Holocene Pollen and Molluscan Records from Eastern Baffin Island W.N. Mode 18. Late and Mid-Foxe Glaciation of Southern Baffin Island L. E. Osterman, G. H. Miller and J. A. Stravers 19. Moraines and Proglacial Lake Shorelines, Hall Peninsula, Baffin Island G.H. Miller Survey Part IV Part V: Holocene Sea Levels and Climate 20. A Numerical Model of Post Glacial Relative Sea Level Change Near Baffin Island G. Quinlan 21. Holocene Sea Level Variations within Frobisher Bay J. T. Andrews and G.H. Miller 22. The Holocene Record from Baffin Island: Modern and Fossil Pollen Studies S.K. Short, W.N. Mode, And P.T. Davis 23. Holocene Pollen Records from West Greenland B. Fredskild 24. Neoglacial Moraines on Baffin Island P.T. Davis 25. Environment and Prehistory, Baffin Island J. D. Jacobs 26. Paleoclimatology of the Baffin Bay Region L.D. Williams and R. S. Bradley Survey Part V
Biography
John T. Andrews
