Paleoenvironment of the Truelove Lowland Area, Devon Island, N.W.T.

Régions: Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut

étiquettes: physical sciences, soil, sedimentology, fossils, paleoenvironment, environmental change, chemistry

chercheur principal: King, Roger H. (6)
Nᵒ de permis: 10147
Organisation: Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario
Année(s) de permis: 1994 1992 1991 1990 1988
Délivré: janv. 01, 1990
Équipe de projet: I. Roderick Smith; Christopher Somr; Laura Robilliard

Objectif(s): To examine the palaeoenvironmental record preserved in the sediments and soils of the Truelove Lowland and adjacent areas of the northeastern coast of Devon Island.

Description du projet: The Researcher and his team will study the age, chemistry and fossil organisms preserved in the lake sediments of the Truelove Lowland and use this information to reconstruct past environmental changes. The object is to reconstruct the environmental changes that have taken place in these Polar Oases during the last 10,000 years.