Palaeoecology of a palsa and a filled thermokarst pond in a permafrost peatland, subarctic Québec, Canada

Radiocarbon dating and macrofossil data from a palsa and a filled thermokarst pond within a subarctic permafrost peatland were used to reconstruct their evolution and to distinguish between allogenic and autogenic processes that had been involved in their development. Peat began to accumulate in the...

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Published in:The Holocene
Main Authors: Arlen-Pouliot, Yann, Bhiry, Najat
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2005
Subjects:
Canada
Shallow Bay
Ice
palsa
permafrost
Subarctic
Thermokarst
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0959683605hl818rp
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/0959683605hl818rp

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