Chassiot, Léo 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3722-7124; Lajeunesse, Patrick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2265-4529; Francus, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-1966; Normandeau, Alexandre; Lapointe, François ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0546-7780; Massa, Charly et De Coninck, Arnaud
(2024).
Landscape evolution and sediment delivery in a High Arctic proglacial lake, Ellesmere Island , Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
, vol. 49
, nº 6.
pp. 1987-2009.
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5811.
Résumé
Geophysical and morphosedimentary investigations were conducted at Strathcona Lake, a High Arctic proglacial lake and its catchment connected to the Taggart Lake Glacier, northwest corner of the Prince of Wales Icefield in Ellesmere Island (eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago). The mapping of glaciomarine landforms and units provides, together with updated radiocarbon information, a framework for catchment evolution and sediment delivery to the lake during deglaciation and glacio‐isostatically induced relative sea level fall. A staircase of deltas with descending altitudes provide evidence for a spatially diachronous timing of ice retreat from the catchments around Strathcona Lake. Swath bathymetric mapping coupled with acoustic sediment stratigraphy show draped infills with a transition from marine to rhythmically bedded lacustrine sediments produced by hyperpycnal flows. Multiproxy investigations on a set of sediment cores highlight proglacial varves interrupted by rhythmites resulting from the erosion of fluvially incised glaciomarine sediments stored in the catchment. Pluricentimetric proglacial varves formed during the last century in response to periods of intense glacial melt, notably since the 21st century. The sedimentary record suggests the varved sediments from Strathcona Lake can be used to reconstruct the melting history of the Prince of Wales Icefield. This work provides a geomorphological, sedimentological, and geochemical framework that should guide future varve‐based reconstructions of glacial and climatic variability in Ellesmere Island.
| Type de document: | Article |
|---|---|
| Mots-clés libres: | deglaciation; paraglacial sedimentation; Prince of Wales Icefield; proglacial varves |
| Centre: | Centre Eau Terre Environnement |
| Date de dépôt: | 13 août 2024 17:59 |
| Dernière modification: | 13 août 2024 17:59 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/15664 |
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