14C (Carbon-14) ages of Holocene lake drainage events on the North Slope of Alaska, 2019-2020

• Main Authors: Louise Farquharson, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanveskiy, Benjamin Gaglioti, Helena Bergstedt, Kenneth Hinkel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Thermokarst lake; Drained lake basin; Permafrost; Hydrology; Carbon; Arctic; Alaska; Climate change; Ice; north slope; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2KD1QN05

Lakes are abundant features on coastal plains of the Arctic, providing important fish and wildlife habitat and water supply for villages and industry, but also interact with frozen ground (permafrost) and the carbon it stores. Most of these lakes are termed "thermokarst" because they form...