Recent foraminifera in the canadian arctic

Discusses the distribution of forams from cores and grab samples taken in Hecla and Griper Bay and Hazen Strait in 1966, in relation to the local bottom topography and sediments and oceanography and in comparison with other arctic and subarctic shelf faunas. Some 78 foram species belonging to 48 genera and 28 families were studied. These forams from ice-covered seas were distributed in two bathymetric zones, above and below the 200-m isobath. The data are used in support of a theory of a regional sea-level lowering during the Holocene. The sedimentation rate during the past 8000 yr is indicated to be 4.4 cm/1000 yr.