The deglacial to postglacial marine environments of SE Barrow Strait, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Boreas

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-179

  Pieńkowski, Anna J ^a   England, John H ^b   Furze, Mark F A ^c   Marret, Fabienne ^d   Eynaud, Frédérique ^e   Vilks, Gustav ^f   MacLean, Brian ^f   Blasco, Steve ^f   Scourse, James D ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; GLACIOISOSTASY; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POSTGLACIAL; REMEDIATION;

BARROW STRAIT; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT;

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84858827279     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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