Paleodynamics and organic carbon characteristics in a thermokarst affected landscape in West Alaska

• Main Author: Jongejans, Loeka L.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Global warming; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45414/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45414/1/Jongejans_2017_master.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51542; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51542.d001

Global warming will continue to warm the Arctic resulting in the degradation of permafrost soils which leads to large-scale ground subsidence. Vast regions of the Arctic are covered with ice-rich silts, known as yedoma, containing large ice wedges. The formation of thermokarst lakes is one of the mo...