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Author : Dionne, J.-C.
Date : 1981
Title : An outline of the eastern James Bay coastal environments
Publication : (The coastline of Canada : its littoral processes and shore morphology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1-3, 1978. Edited by S.B. McCann. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper
Issue : 80-10:
Page(s) : 311-338.
Abstract
The eastern James Bay coastline extends in a general south to north direction from the mouth of Harricana and Nottaway rivers, to Point Louis XIV, for an approximate straigth-line distance of 380 km. However, the extremely irregular and indented shoreline is about 1400 km long. It is fringed by more than a thousand islands, skerries and shoals of various sizes and shapes. Several hundred embayments, points, and peninsulas, composed either of crystalline rocks or unconsolidated sediments, characterize this subarctic coast. The shoreline has developed along a flat lowland area gently sloping towards James Bay. The levelled bedrock surface is a peneplane thinly mantled by Quaternary deposits. It is an emerging coastline with wide shore and nearshore zones of small slope gradient. The coast is exposed to offshore fetches up to 200 km long for about 6 months per year, and it is partly or entirely ice-covered from November to June. Although drift iceprocesses are very important along the shoreline, waves, currents and tides are the major processes of coastal evolution
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