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Author : Bednarski, J.
Date : 1984
Title : Glacier fluctuations and sea level history of Clements Markham Inlet, northern Ellesmere Island
Publication : Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton
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Page(s) : 232 p
Abstract
Prior to this study, detailed field work on the glacial history of northernmost Ellesmere Island has not been undertaken despite the area's major ice fields and fiord systems and its direct proximity to the Arctic Ocean. The primary objective of the thesis, therefore, is to expand the glacioisostatic data base for Ellesmere Island and to relate it to the late glacial stratigraphy. This information would be particularly relevant to: the controversy regarding the extent of ice in northern high latitudes during the last glaciation; the chronological and paleoenvironmental interpretatins of High Arctic ice cores ... the importance of the Arctic Ocean as a moisture source for the growth of northern high latitude ice sheets ; and finally the hypothesis for biological refugia in this area .... Specifically, the thesis is concerned with the extent and chronological relationships of past glaciations in Clements Markham Inlet .... A secondrelated objective was to determine the nature and pattern of postglacial emergence in order to improve on the provisional postglacial isobases originally drawn for NE Ellesmere Island .
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