Sediment redistribution processes in Baffin Island fjords

J Syvitski, A Normandeau - Marine Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Four decades of studies on pristine Baffin Island fjords are summarized with respect to
sediment redistribution processes and resulting deposits. Sediment fill in these fjords …

[HTML][HTML] Deglacial and Holocene sediment dynamics and provenances off Lancaster Sound: Implications for paleoenvironmental conditions in northern Baffin Bay

E Okuma, J Hingst, J Weiser, L Madaj… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the last deglaciation, Baffin Bay between Greenland and Canada developed from an
isolated marginal sea to a major Arctic-Atlantic throughflow closely linked to the North …

[HTML][HTML] Shallow gas and gas hydrate occurrences on the northwest Greenland shelf margin

DR Cox, M Huuse, AMW Newton, AD Sarkar, PC Knutz - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial 3D seismic data are used to investigate the contemporary hydrocarbon distribution
and historical fluid migration in Melville Bay offshore northwest Greenland. Gas-related …

[HTML][HTML] Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) and trace elements in four marine bird species from northern Canada in a region of natural marine oil and gas seeps

JF Provencher, PJ Thomas, B Pauli, BM Braune… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a growing understanding of how oil pollution can affect aquatic ecosystems,
including physical and chemical effects. One of the biggest challenges with detecting the …

Late glacial retreat of the Lancaster Sound Ice Stream and early Holocene onset of Arctic/Atlantic throughflow in the Arctic Island channels

R Kelleher, A Jennings, J Andrews… - Arctic, Antarctic, and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Multiple proxies in three sediment cores from Northwestern Baffin Bay document the timing
of Lancaster Sound Ice Stream (LSIS) retreat that led to Arctic–Atlantic throughflow in Parry …

Retreat of the Smith sound ice stream in the early Holocene

AE Jennings, JT Andrews, B Oliver, M Walczak, A Mix - Boreas, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nares Strait, a major connection between the Arctic Ocean and Baffin Bay, was blocked by
coalescent Innuitian and Greenland ice sheets during the last glaciation. This paper focuses …

Along-slope variations in sediment lithofacies and depositional processes since the Last Glacial Maximum on the northeast Baffin margin, Canada

KA Jenner, DC Campbell, DJW Piper - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Twelve piston cores were used to characterize late Quaternary lithofacies, depositional
processes and deglacial history along the Baffin Bay slope between Lancaster Sound and …

Maximum extent and decay of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Western Baffin Bay during the Last glacial episode

E Brouard, P Lajeunesse - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Reconstructing the extent, flow and decay of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) on the
continental shelves of North America during the last glaciation provides paleoglaciological …

The variability of Baffin Bay seafloor sediment mineralogy: the identification of discrete glacial sediment sources and application to Late Quaternary downcore analysis

JT Andrews, AJ Klein, KA Jenner… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
Quantitative X-ray diffraction (qXRD) mineralogy of bedrock, ice-rafted, and fluvial clasts,
239 seafloor samples (< 2 mm), and samples from two long piston cores were used to (i) …

Glacial to postglacial submarine landform assemblages in fiords of northeastern Baffin Island

E Brouard, P Lajeunesse - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Fiord morphology plays a fundamental role in glacier flow dynamics and on ice-margin
stability. As most of the present-day margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet lays in fiords, there …