The Taconite Inlet Lakes Project: A systems approach to paleoclimatic reconstruction

Publication Title

Journal of Paleolimnology

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Geology

Publication Date

1996

Keywords

arctic, drainage basin characteristics, lacustrine sedimentation, meromictic, paleoclimatic, varves, isostatic uplift, lacustrine sediment, lake sediment, palaeoclimate, palaeoclimate reconstruction, seawater, varve

Abstract

A comprehensive study of meteorological, hydrological, limnological and sedimentological conditions in the watersheds of density-stratified (meromictic) lakes around Taconite Inlet, northern Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada was carried out from 1990-1992. Lakes C1 and C2 contain seawater 'trapped' by isostatic uplift as the former embayments became isolated from the sea. These lakes, and Lake C3, contain varved sediments which provide an annually resolvable paleoclimatic record. By studying the major systems influencing sedimentation in one of these lakes (Lake C2) a better understanding of the climatic controls on varve formation, and hence on the paleoclimatic signal in the varved sediment record, was obtained. The varves of Lake C2 provide a proxy record of summer temperature for the region.

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Original version is available from the publisher at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00176930

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