Paleomagnetism of the Circum - Ungava Belt : East Coast of Hudson Bay

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
E J Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Hudson Bay

Explorations on the East Coast of Hudson Bay

1947 ◽  
Vol 109 (1/3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Manning
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Hudson Bay

Ruins of Eskimo Stone Houses on the East Side of Hudson Bay

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Manning
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
East Side ◽  
Hudson's Bay Company ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Made In ◽  
Hudson’S Bay Company

Archaeological material obtained from Eskimos on the east side of Hudson Bay has been described by Mathiassen, Quimby, and Jenness, but no systematic excavations have been made in the area. Mathiassen was told by Mr. S. Berthfi of Reveillon Frdres that there were house ruins of turf and stone on the east coast of Hudson Bay at Kovik Bay, Mosquito Bay, and Cape Dufferin, and also on the Ottawa Islands; and by Mr. Perdy of the Hudson's Bay Company that there were house ruins at Cape Wolstenholme and many around Port Harrison. Obviously, Mathiassen concluded that these were regular houses of the Thule type. Quimby6 found only oval and rectangular tent rings on the Belcher Islands, and assumed that the semisubterranean houses characteristic of the Thule culture were lacking.

Background Levels of Petroleum Residues in the Waters and Surficial Bottom Sediments of the Labrador Shelf and Hudson Strait/Foxe Basin Regions

1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Water Column ◽  
Bottom Sediments ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Background Level ◽  
Surface Microlayer ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Foxe Basin ◽  
Background Levels ◽  
Petroleum Residues ◽  
Concentration Levels

Background levels of petroleum residues in the form of particles floating on the sea and as substances extracted from the surface microlayer, the water column, and the surficial bottom sediments of the Hudson Strait/Foxe Basin and the Labrador shelf regions were measured during 1982 and 1983. No evidence of floating particulate oil was found in either region. Background levels of extractable petroleum residues in the surface microlayer were highly dependent on ambient sea conditions and ranged from 4.1 μg/L at the entrance to Hudson Strait to 28.3 μg/L on the southern Labrador shelf in 1982, and from 4.5 to 20.9 μg/L on the Labrador shelf in 1983 with the general background level at 8.13 μg/L. The background level in the water column in the Hudson Bay/Hudson Strait region was 0.46 μg/L in 1982 whereas that on the Labrador shelf was 0.42 μg/L during 1982 and 0.57 μg/L in 1983 (overall level of 0.51 μg/L). Concentration levels in the surficial bottom sediments depended primarily on the nature of the sediments and ranged from 1.9 μg/g at the eastern end of Hudson Strait to 52.5 μg/g on the continental slope east of Nain Bank with a general background level of 2.04 μg/g. These background levels are similar to those of other areas of the continental shelf off the east coast of Canada and are, presently, well below those known to have adverse biological consequences.

scholarly journals The Polar Bear and its Protection

Oryx ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. Loughrey
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Pack Ice ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
Ice Floes

The polar bear, Thalarctos maritimus, (Phipps) enjoys such colloquial names as: “ice-bear,” “sea-bear,” “ice-tiger” and “ice-king.” In view of its large size and its supremacy over the other beasts of the ice-floes it well deserves these epithets. Primarily the polar bear is an animal of the broken arctic pack ice and is found in greatest numbers along the southern edge of the pack. It avoids large expanses of open water or frozen sea ice. The movements of the pack ice to a large degree determine its distribution and movements. Polar bears are carried southward with the pack ice in the spring and summer. In August and September when the ice begins to break up they generally come ashore and make their way north. At this time of year they may be found in considerable numbers along certain coasts where the sea ice has been brought by the winds, tides and currents. An Eskimo from Southampton Island, in northern Hudson Bay, informed me that in August, 1948, he and a companion counted over 180 of these bears along the east coast of that island.

3 The Arnapik Site

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 12-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Maximum Elevation ◽  
Barren Island ◽  
North Latitude

The Arnapik site, JlGu-9, is located about two miles east (Fig. 1) of Amulet Creek (61°51′15″N., 79°27′40″W.) on the central east coast of Mansel Island in the northeastern extremity of Hudson Bay. Mansel Island, 36 miles west of the Ungava mainland at its closest point, is a low, generally barren island measuring roughly 60 by 34 miles. Despite its size its maximum elevation is under 500 feet. The island, formed of limestone and limestone gravels, geologically is a member of the Arctic lowlands. The vegetation, arctic grasses, sedges, mosses, lichens, willow and arctic flowers, is extremely sparse for this latitude, a marked contrast to the hardrock terrain of the nearby mainland, but much like such high Arctic locales as Bathurst and Comwallis Islands near 75° north latitude (Polunin 1948: 248).

La répartition du pergélisol dans la région du détroit de Manitounuk, côte est de la mer d'Hudson, Canada

1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice K. Seguin ◽  
Michel Allard
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Thermal Effects ◽  
Snow Depth ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Mud Volcanoes ◽  
Freeze Thaw ◽  
Groundwater Movement

Forty-four AC electrical resistivity soundings have been made on the Manitounuk Islands (55°30′N, east coast of Hudson Bay) as well as in post-glacial and Recent marine sediments of the supratidal zone along the east shore of Manitounuk Strait. The results indicate that permafrost, which may have a thickness of 30 m, is present within basalts and quartzites of the cuestas at elevations above 20 m. The thermal effect of the sea and the possible infiltration of sea water in the structural elements prevent the formation of permafrost at lower altitudes. Rocky sites where permafrost has been detected are windswept areas devoid of snow. Heaved bedrock landforms are numerous on those sites. Along the east coast of Manitounuk Strait permafrost is scattered in patches and the permafrost landforms are degrading. Seasonal freeze–thaw processes are responsible for many features, such as thufurs, boulder heaving, clastic dykes, mud volcanoes, and others. The processes are related to year to year variability in the temperature regime, snow depth over the land surface, groundwater movement, thermal effects of the tides, and shore ice on the tidal flat.

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