Coupled landscape-lake evolution in High Arctic Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 533-546

  Van Hove, Patrick ^a   Belzile, Claude ^b   Gibson, John A E ^c   Vincent, Warwick F ^a  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

CANADA; CHRONOSEQUENCE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

BOTTOM WATER; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE COVER; LAKE EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIMNOLOGY;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 33746657554     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-003     Document Type: Article

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