Long-term destabilization of retrogressive thaw slumps (Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada)

• Main Authors: Eppinger, Saskia, Krautblatter, Michael, Lantuit, Hugues, Fritz, Michael, Lenz, Josefine, Angelopoulos, Michael
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Herschel; Herschel Island; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56997/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/56997/1/EGU22-9692-print.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9692; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14a0ec89-1fbb-4d23-9ec7-3d4755b2c508

Retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) are a common thermokarst landform along Arctic coastlines and provide a large amount of material containing organic carbon to the nearshore zone. The number of RTS has strongly increased since the last century. They are characterized by rapidly changing topographical...