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Thursday 12 October 2023

Raised beach ridges, Southampton Island

 


This is a gorgeous photo of raised beach ridges on Southampton Island in Arctic Canada.  They are picked out by a thin covering of winter snow.  Photo credit:  Mike Beauregard.

This is one of the areas of highest isostatic recovery rates on planet Earth -- the marine limit on the coasts of Hudson Bay is in places over 300m, and on the Arctic islands occasionally over 200m.......

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