Paleomagnetic Record, Texture, and Mineralogy of Late Quaternary Sediments, Baffin Island Fiords, N.W.T., CanadaFootnote^*

* Sedimentology of Arctic Fiords Experiment (S.A.F.E.) Contribution No. 9.

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