Climatic drivers of retrogressive thaw slump activity and resulting sediment and carbon release to the nearshore zone of Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

• Main Author: Weege, Stefanie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Universität Potsdam, Germany 2017
• Subjects: Herschel; Herschel Island; Ice; permafrost; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45181/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45181/1/weege_diss.pdf; https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39794; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51353; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51353.d001

The Yukon Coast in Canada is an ice-rich permafrost coast and highly sensitive to changing environmental conditions. Retrogressive thaw slumps are a common thermoerosion feature along this coast, and develop through the thawing of exposed ice-rich permafrost on slopes and removal of accumulating deb...