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Andrews, John T (1987): Late Quaternary sediment accumulation in the Baffin Bay. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.743338, Supplement to: Andrews, JT (1987): Late Quaternary marine sediment accumulation in fjord-shelf-deep-sea transects, Baffin Island to Baffin Bay. Quaternary Science Reviews, 6(3-4), 231-243, https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-3791(87)90006-0

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Abstract:
Piston cores from fiords, shelf troughs, and the deep-sea off eastern Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada, have been sampled for texture and detrital carbonate in the <2 mm fraction. The sediments consist primarily of silty clays usually containing <5% sand. Estimates are made for sediment accumulation (kg/m**2/ka) over the last ca. 10 ka. Three sets, of two cores each, lie on a fiord-shelf transect and thus define variations in sediment accumulation gradients. These continental margin data are compared with cruder estimates of Holocene sediment accumulation at three sites farther offshore in Baffin Bay, Davis Strait and the northern Labrador Sea. Minimum accumulation in a 2 ka interval was 200 kg/m2 with a maximum estimate of 8,800 kg/m2. Detrital carbonate accumulation varies between 0 and 1,300 kg/m**2. Median accumulation for a typical fiord-shelf-deep-sea transect over the last 10 ka have been 10,340, 3493 and 820 kg/m**2. At DSDP Leg, site 645 in central Baffin Bay, the sedimentation rate ranged between 40 and 130 m/Ma (ca. 400 and 1200 kg/m**2/2ka); that is, comparable with the Late Quaternary input into Baffin Bay.
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Median Latitude: 67.206905 * Median Longitude: -66.937089 * South-bound Latitude: 61.850833 * West-bound Longitude: -71.883330 * North-bound Latitude: 71.217000 * East-bound Longitude: -59.366667
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HU75-58 * Latitude: 62.766667 * Longitude: -59.366667 * Elevation: -1057.0 m * Recovery: 7 m * Location: Baffin Bay * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
HU76-40 * Latitude: 70.706667 * Longitude: -64.978333 * Elevation: -2041.0 m * Recovery: 7.03 m * Location: Baffin Bay * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
HU77-156 * Latitude: 61.850833 * Longitude: -64.200500 * Elevation: -487.0 m * Recovery: 3.15 m * Location: Baffin Shelf * Method/Device: Piston corer (PC)
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  1. Andrews, JT (1987): (Table 3) Sediment accumulation rates of the Baffin Bay. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.743337
  2. Andrews, JT (1987): (Table 2) Age determintion of sediments of the Baffin Bay. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.743336