A 10400-year-old bowhead whale {balaena mysticetus) skull from Ellef Ringnes island, nunavut: Implications for sea-ice conditions in high Arctic canada at the end of the last glaciation

Arctic

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-44

  Atkinson, Nigel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bowhead whale; Deglaciation; Ocean currents; Paleoclimate; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CLIMATE FORCING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; ISLAND; LAST GLACIATION; SEA ICE; WHALE;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 64549122465     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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