Raised gravel beaches as proxy indicators of past sea-ice and wave conditions, Lowther island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Arctic

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-226

  St Hilaire gravel, Dominique ^a   Bell, Trevor J ^a   Forbes, Donald L ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beach morphology; Canadian Arctic; Climate history; Gravel beach; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; BEACH RIDGE; GRAVEL; OPEN WATER; SEA ICE; SHORELINE; WAVE ENERGY;

BARROW STRAIT; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; LOWTHER ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 77954252803     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic976     Document Type: Article

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