Thermokarst‐lake‐basin sediments, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western arctic Canada

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Author: MURTON, JULIAN B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1996.tb02023.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-3091.1996.tb02023.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1996.tb02023.x

ABSTRACT Three stages of deposition are distinguished in thermokarst‐lake‐basin sequences in ice‐rich permafrost of the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western arctic Canada: (1) widespread retrogressive thaw slumping around lake margins that rapidly transports upland sediments into thermokarst lakes, formi...