Climate and Terrain Characteristics Linked to Mud Ejection Occurrence in the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Holloway, Jean E., Lamoureux, Scott F., Montross, Scott N., Lafrenière, Melissa J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Cape Bounty; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1870; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.1870; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.1870

Abstract Pressurised slurries of fine‐grained sediment expelled from the base of the active layer have been observed in recent years in the High Arctic. Such mud ejections , however, are poorly understood in terms of how exactly climate and landscape factors determine when and where they occur. Mud...