Salluit, Kangiqsujuaq and Quaqtaq, Ungava Peninsula, Nunavik, Canada
Dataset code SAL
Contact: Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Reinhard Pienitz
Collection date: April 1st, 2002 to September 30, 2004
Dataset info
Longitude
-75.72° to -69.56°
Latitude
60.86° to 62.18°
2007, Saulnier-Talbot, E.
2007, Saulnier-Talbot, E., Leng, M.J. and Pienitz, P.
Saulnier-Talbot, E., Leng, M.J. and Pienitz, P. 2007. Recent climate and stable isotopes in modern surface waters of northernmost Ungava Peninsula, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44 :171-180 [10.1139/E06-089]
The isotope composition (d18 O and dD) of surface waters was measured over a 26-month period near three localities situated along the northern coast of Ungava Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. To characterize the present-day local hydrological settings, the oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios were measured from precipitation and were compared to local and regional climate data. We show that the modern surface waters contain information on climate and that this relationship is likely to be transferred to biotic components within the lakes. These components, once sedimented, are therefore likely to form an archive of climate change. The new data presented here show the possibility of isotope paleoclimatic investigation based on lake sediments in the northern coastal region of Ungava Peninsula.
Environmental and physical data
Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. (BYL dataset: 27 sampled lakes)
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