Deep ice-Rich permafrost and Its Carbon Vulnerability

• Main Author: Strauss, Jens
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45149/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45149/1/Strauss_ACOP2017_PlenarySession.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51418; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51418.d001

Arctic landscapes, especially those underlain by permafrost, are threatened by climate warming and may degrade in different ways, including active layer deepening, thermal erosion, and development of thermokarst features. In Siberian and Alaskan late Pleistocene ice-rich Yedoma permafrost, rapid and...