Observations of massive ground ice, Hershel Island, Yukon Territory

• Main Author: Fox, David
• Other Authors: Wayne H Pollard (Supervisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 2012
• Subjects: Earth Sciences - Physical Geography; Arctic; Blanche; Bleue; Canada; Herschel Island; Herschel Island Territorial Park; Molaire; Yukon; glacier*; Herschel; Ice; permafrost; wedge*; pergélisol
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106608

The rapid change in climate currently being recorded in the Western Canadian Arctic is projected to have a major influence on the permafrost ground that underlies more than half of Canada's landmass. The isolation of this vast landscape has inhibited scientific research consequently limiting th...