Assessing Permafrost Stability: A Uranium-Lead Chronology of Speleothem Deposition in the Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Gambino, Celeste M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Boston College 2018
• Subjects: Permafrost; Speleothem; uranium-lead; Arctic; Jeremy; Northwest Territories; Yukon; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108109

Thesis advisor: Jeremy D. Shakun The Arctic is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet. Currently, much of the Arctic is covered by permafrost, which contains approximately 1,700 gigatons of organic carbon. Permafrost thaw could release a substantial amount of this carbon as greenhouse gase...