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A Regional Stratigraphic Isochron (ca. 8000 14C yr B.P.) from Final Deglaciation of Hudson Strait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael W. Kerwin
Michael W. Kerwin*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Box 450, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0450
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Abstract

Sedimentologic, rock-magnetic, and X-ray fluorescence data from two marine sediment cores in Hudson Strait suggest that a red, hematite-rich clay layer was deposited throughout the strait during the final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the vicinity of northern Hudson Bay and western Hudson Strait. This layer, which can be recognized by its reddish-pink color (10YR6/2 to 5YR4/2) and relatively high-hematite proportions (low magnetic susceptibility and magnetite-to-hematite ratio), is dated from 8000 to 7900 14C yr B.P. at both ends of the strait. The Dubawnt Group, a Proterozoic bedrock unit in northern Hudson Bay, is the most likely source of this stratigraphic isochron. In eastern Hudson strait, the recognition of this red unit and other distal glaciomarine sediments from 8400 to 7900 14C yr B.P. indicates that little sediment from the nearby Labrador Dome reached eastern Hudson Strait during this 500-yr interval. This time interval immediately postdates the Noble Inlet advance, a northward flow of Labrador ice across eastern Hudson Strait onto southern Baffin Island from ca. 8900 to 8400 14C yr B.P. One explanation for the lack of Labrador sediments is that the northern margin of the Labrador dome was cold-based for up to 500 yr following the Noble Inlet advance.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 89 - 98
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University of Washington

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