New insights into Late Pleistocene glacial and postglacial history of northernmost Ungava (Canada) from Pingualuit Crater Lake sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 27-28, 2011, Pages 3892-3907

  Guyard, Hervé ^a,b   St Onge, Guillaume ^a,b   Pienitz, Reinhard ^c   Francus, Pierre ^b,d   Zolitschka, Bernd ^e   Clarke, Garry K C ^f   Hausmann, Sonja ^g   Salonen, Veli Pekka ^h   Lajeunesse, Patrick ^c   Ledoux, Grégoire ^c   Lamothe, Michel ⁱ  

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

^b GEOTOP Research Center   (Canada)

^c CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^d CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crater Lake; Lacustrine sediments; Late Pleistocene; Multiproxy; Stratigraphy; Subglacial Lake; Ungava

Indexed keywords

CRATER LAKE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MULTIPROXY; SUBGLACIAL LAKES; UNGAVA;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

LAKES;

CRATER; GLACIAL HISTORY; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOISOSTASY; ICE SHEET; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; LUMINESCENCE; METEOR; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNGAVA PENINSULA;

EID: 82355175187     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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