Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice-wedge activity on the Blackstone Plateau, central Yukon, Canada

Abstract Ice-wedge activity can be used to reconstruct past environmental conditions. We investigated the moisture source and timing of ice-wedge formation on the Blackstone Plateau. A section of permafrost exposed ice wedges that developed at two distinct depths: the first set formed syngenetically...

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Published in:Quaternary Research
Main Authors: Grinter, Mike, Lacelle, Denis, Baranova, Natalia, Murseli, Sarah, Clark, Ian D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2018
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Earth-Surface Processes
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Arctic
Blackstone Plateau
Canada
Plateau Central
Yukon
Ice
permafrost
wedge*
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.65
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589418000650

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