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Author : Andrews, J.T.; and Miller, G.H.
Date : 1979
Title : Climatic change over the last 1000 years, Baffin Island, N.W.T.
Publication : Thule Eskimo culture : an anthropological retrospective. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Paper
Issue : 88.
Page(s) : 541-554
Abstract
Problems faced in establishing a geologic-climate stratigraphy for Baffin Island over the last 1000 years are discussed in this paper. Many of these problems are associated with dating deposits and the interpretation of the "climate" part of the record. ... a summary of the available glacial chronology is presented ... as well as new data on preliminary July temperature and summer precipitation reconstructions. The geological evidence, when combined with glaciological data, indicates that the present-day environment of the eastern Canadian Arctic is atypical of the last 1000 years. ... conditions such as prevail today may have occurred only about one-third of the time. For the remaining two-thirds of the time, our reconstructions suggest that summer temperatures were lower than the "warm" period of the 1940's and 1950's.
Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology