Holocene Late Glacial Maximum and Marine Transgression in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

Abstract

WE present new data on the age of a major glacial readvance and marine transgression from the eastern Canadian Arctic and compare the age of this and other major Strandlines from northern European and the European Arctic1, 2, where recent work demonstrates the occurrence of correlative marine shoreline forms and deposits < 8,000 BP. Sissons and Bailey2 suggested that the principal transgression in the Forth Valley, Scotland, commenced about 8,500 bp; Binns1 suggests a date of 7,700 BP.