scholarly journals The early proterozoic Richmond Gulf Graben, east coast of Hudson Bay, Quebec

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
F W Chandler
1947 ◽  
Vol 109 (1/3) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Manning
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1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Manning

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.


1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Levy

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.


Oryx ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan G. Loughrey

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.


1993 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
F Kalsbeek ◽  
P.N Taylor

Sm-Nd model ages for ten basement gneisses and intrusive rocks from the Skjoldungen area in South-East Greenland range from 2.73 to 2.91 Ga. Two rocks yielded older ages: a high-grade metasedimentary rock (2.96 Ga) and a pegmatite (3.13 Ga). Sm-Nd data are now available for a more than 700 km long stretch of the south-east coast of Greenland between 63° and 68°N. No evidence has been found for the presence of early Archaean (> 3.5 Ga) rocks, and early Proterozoic gneisses have only been found in the Ammassalik area (65° 30'N).


1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1137-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Hofmann ◽  
G. D. Jackson

A small assemblage of primitive microscopic fossils is here reported for the first time from the lower part of the Belcher Group in Hudson Bay. The microbiota includes chains and clumps of bacteria, and filamentous and spheroidal structures of probable algal or fungal affinities. In addition, a variety of isolated and clustered spheroids and other structures of probable biologic origin is present. The structures are more than 1600 m.y. old, and occur in a black chert associated with thick dolomite beds considered to be of Aphebian (Early Proterozoic) age. Morphologically comparable Precambrian microfossils occur in the Gunflint Formation (Early Proterozoic, Ontario) and the Bitter Springs Formation (Late Proterozoic, central Australia).


1968 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 12-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Taylor

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).


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