Weston Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 4511526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Weston Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Weston |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Geological Survey of Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Holocene fluctuations of Leffert Glacier and nearby outlet glaciers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Radiocarbon age determinations on marine shells in lateral moraines and other deposits several kms behind the present day termini of tidewater outlet glaciers from the Prince of Wales Icefield, east-central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, as well as tidewater glaciers from two nearby ice-caps, show that these glaciers have fluctuated considerably through the Holocene, both in length and in thickness. The terminus of Leffert Glacier, for…
S. Brian McCann (1935–2004)
Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition, by Colin Bull
Skaftafell in Iceland: A Thousand Years of Change, by Jack D. Ives
This beautiful book is the result of field research and study over a 55-year period in Öraefi (the Skaftafell-Skei›arárjökull-Öraefajökull district), southeastern Iceland, by Jack Ives, now an honorary research professor at
The Best Journey in the World: Adventures in Canada's High Arctic, by Jim Lotz
War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II, by Wilhem Dege. Translated from the German and edited by William Barr
Obituaries
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Biological activity on a decaying caribou antler at Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, high Arctic Canada
In the polar desert of the high Arctic, underlain by continuous permafrost and commonly snow-covered for much of the year, the paucity of plant growth might seem unsurprising. Although low temperatures and lack of moisture exert a strong influence on plant life and can greatly diminish the rate at which plants can grow, these are nevertheless not the only factors involved. Lack of mineral nutrients, in an environment where chemical weathering is …
C Dating of Laser-Oxidized Organics
We used a continuous krypton ion laser to rapidly oxidize milligram-sized fragments of coniferous driftwood of known ages, and dated the resulting carbon dioxide by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). AMS 14 C ages of non-pretreated young wood from different parts of two logs were within 10% of the ages of conventionally determined alkaline insoluble fractions. The age of the oldest whole wood measured after laser oxidation was within the error …
The site of Fort Magnesia, Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, NWT
The site of Fort Magnesia, the base hut of a three-man expedition to Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, in the Canadian Arctic, has recently been rediscovered by a party from the Geological Survey of Canada. Erected by Robert Stein's party in summer 1899, and used by them for two years, the hut was almost certainly moved to another site by Robert E. Peary for his over-wintering in 1901–02. Only fragments of the hut now remain. Five graves, probably of P…
Application of 14C AMS Dating to the Chronology of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the High Arctic, With Special Reference to Leffert Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canada
A series of radiocarbon age determinations obtained by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) shows that the front of Leffert Glacier, a major outlet glacier from the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island, was 18+ km behind (west of) its present position for a period of at least 1500 radiocarbon years. A subsequent readvance occurred close to 2000 radiocarbon years ago, as a consequence of the climatic cooling that followed the warm Hypsitherma…
John Hainsworth Mercer, 1922-1987
From 1951 until 1954, Mercer studied at McGill University. His Ph.D. thesis, ... was based on field work carried out in the vicinity of the Grinnell and Terra Nivea ice caps on southern Baffin Island. ... Mercer was highly motivated by field work and literally thrived on it. Typically, and often to the chagrin of at least one of his contemporaries, Mercer did not unnecessarily burden himself (or others) with loads of data. Many of his papers seem…
Valter Schytt (1919-1985)
Valter Schytt, Sweden's leading glaciologist and polar scientist, died 30 March 1985 in the Tarfala valley, Kebnekaise, Swedish Lapland. ... Always an internationalist, Schytt became the first non-British president of the International Glaciological Society (1969-72), he was long-time council member and then president (1977-79) of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, he was president of the Swedish Travellers' Club (1976-85), and h…
Symposium on climatic changes in Arctic areas during the last 10 000 years
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Stockholm University Svalbard Expedition, 1966
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Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Symposium on Spitsbergen, 1961
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Russian Settlement and Land Rise in Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen
Presents evidence of stable shoreline in the Murchisonfjorden region from 1957-1958 studies of a Russian hunting hut on Nordre Russoya. Age of the hut is determined as at least 100 years from settlement records and radiocarbon dating. It is located only 1.2 m above high-tide level and 0.8 m above the highest tides; hence the land has risen less than one meter in the past century. Any uplift that is occurring is probably balanced by the rise in se…
The Pampas and the Andes
Some Difficulties in Flying Round the World
geologists the removal of carbon from the atmosphere, first as carboniferous limestone and then as coal, was followed by a great glacial period, and, accord? ing to some geologists, notably Chamberlin of Chicago, this was a ease of cause and effect. This is denied by other geologists, but, at all events, the carbon locked up in coal and in petroleum is being rapidly returned by man to the atmosphere. It is only temporarily removed again by growin…
C Dating of Laser-Oxidized Organics
We used a continuous krypton ion laser to rapidly oxidize milligram-sized fragments of coniferous driftwood of known ages, and dated the resulting carbon dioxide by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). AMS 14 C ages of non-pretreated young wood from different parts of two logs were within 10% of the ages of conventionally determined alkaline insoluble fractions. The age of the oldest whole wood measured after laser oxidation was within the error …
Biological activity on a decaying caribou antler at Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, high Arctic Canada
In the polar desert of the high Arctic, underlain by continuous permafrost and commonly snow-covered for much of the year, the paucity of plant growth might seem unsurprising. Although low temperatures and lack of moisture exert a strong influence on plant life and can greatly diminish the rate at which plants can grow, these are nevertheless not the only factors involved. Lack of mineral nutrients, in an environment where chemical weathering is …
Application of 14C AMS Dating to the Chronology of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the High Arctic, With Special Reference to Leffert Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canada
A series of radiocarbon age determinations obtained by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) shows that the front of Leffert Glacier, a major outlet glacier from the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island, was 18+ km behind (west of) its present position for a period of at least 1500 radiocarbon years. A subsequent readvance occurred close to 2000 radiocarbon years ago, as a consequence of the climatic cooling that followed the warm Hypsitherma…
Some Difficulties in Flying Round the World
geologists the removal of carbon from the atmosphere, first as carboniferous limestone and then as coal, was followed by a great glacial period, and, accord? ing to some geologists, notably Chamberlin of Chicago, this was a ease of cause and effect. This is denied by other geologists, but, at all events, the carbon locked up in coal and in petroleum is being rapidly returned by man to the atmosphere. It is only temporarily removed again by growin…
Some Difficulties in Flying Round the World
geologists the removal of carbon from the atmosphere, first as carboniferous limestone and then as coal, was followed by a great glacial period, and, accord? ing to some geologists, notably Chamberlin of Chicago, this was a ease of cause and effect. This is denied by other geologists, but, at all events, the carbon locked up in coal and in petroleum is being rapidly returned by man to the atmosphere. It is only temporarily removed again by growin…
The Pampas and the Andes
Russian Settlement and Land Rise in Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen
Presents evidence of stable shoreline in the Murchisonfjorden region from 1957-1958 studies of a Russian hunting hut on Nordre Russoya. Age of the hut is determined as at least 100 years from settlement records and radiocarbon dating. It is located only 1.2 m above high-tide level and 0.8 m above the highest tides; hence the land has risen less than one meter in the past century. Any uplift that is occurring is probably balanced by the rise in se…
Fridtjof Nansen Memorial Symposium on Spitsbergen, 1961
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Stockholm University Svalbard Expedition, 1966
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Symposium on climatic changes in Arctic areas during the last 10 000 years
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John Hainsworth Mercer, 1922-1987
From 1951 until 1954, Mercer studied at McGill University. His Ph.D. thesis, ... was based on field work carried out in the vicinity of the Grinnell and Terra Nivea ice caps on southern Baffin Island. ... Mercer was highly motivated by field work and literally thrived on it. Typically, and often to the chagrin of at least one of his contemporaries, Mercer did not unnecessarily burden himself (or others) with loads of data. Many of his papers seem…
Valter Schytt (1919-1985)
Valter Schytt, Sweden's leading glaciologist and polar scientist, died 30 March 1985 in the Tarfala valley, Kebnekaise, Swedish Lapland. ... Always an internationalist, Schytt became the first non-British president of the International Glaciological Society (1969-72), he was long-time council member and then president (1977-79) of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, he was president of the Swedish Travellers' Club (1976-85), and h…
Application of 14C AMS Dating to the Chronology of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the High Arctic, With Special Reference to Leffert Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canada
A series of radiocarbon age determinations obtained by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) shows that the front of Leffert Glacier, a major outlet glacier from the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island, was 18+ km behind (west of) its present position for a period of at least 1500 radiocarbon years. A subsequent readvance occurred close to 2000 radiocarbon years ago, as a consequence of the climatic cooling that followed the warm Hypsitherma…
The site of Fort Magnesia, Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, NWT
The site of Fort Magnesia, the base hut of a three-man expedition to Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, in the Canadian Arctic, has recently been rediscovered by a party from the Geological Survey of Canada. Erected by Robert Stein's party in summer 1899, and used by them for two years, the hut was almost certainly moved to another site by Robert E. Peary for his over-wintering in 1901–02. Only fragments of the hut now remain. Five graves, probably of P…
C Dating of Laser-Oxidized Organics
We used a continuous krypton ion laser to rapidly oxidize milligram-sized fragments of coniferous driftwood of known ages, and dated the resulting carbon dioxide by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). AMS 14 C ages of non-pretreated young wood from different parts of two logs were within 10% of the ages of conventionally determined alkaline insoluble fractions. The age of the oldest whole wood measured after laser oxidation was within the error …
Obituaries
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Biological activity on a decaying caribou antler at Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, high Arctic Canada
In the polar desert of the high Arctic, underlain by continuous permafrost and commonly snow-covered for much of the year, the paucity of plant growth might seem unsurprising. Although low temperatures and lack of moisture exert a strong influence on plant life and can greatly diminish the rate at which plants can grow, these are nevertheless not the only factors involved. Lack of mineral nutrients, in an environment where chemical weathering is …
War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II, by Wilhem Dege. Translated from the German and edited by William Barr
Skaftafell in Iceland: A Thousand Years of Change, by Jack D. Ives
This beautiful book is the result of field research and study over a 55-year period in Öraefi (the Skaftafell-Skei›arárjökull-Öraefajökull district), southeastern Iceland, by Jack Ives, now an honorary research professor at
The Best Journey in the World: Adventures in Canada's High Arctic, by Jim Lotz
S. Brian McCann (1935–2004)
Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition, by Colin Bull
Holocene fluctuations of Leffert Glacier and nearby outlet glaciers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Radiocarbon age determinations on marine shells in lateral moraines and other deposits several kms behind the present day termini of tidewater outlet glaciers from the Prince of Wales Icefield, east-central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, as well as tidewater glaciers from two nearby ice-caps, show that these glaciers have fluctuated considerably through the Holocene, both in length and in thickness. The terminus of Leffert Glacier, for…
Geography (17 works) · Geology (15 works) · Geology (13 works) · Physical geography (11 works) · Oceanography (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · Oceanography (8 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Climate change and permafrost (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)