Ground ice characteristics in permafrost on the Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T. : a study utilizing ground probing radar and geomorphological techniques

• Main Author: Barry, Peter
• Other Authors: Pollard, W. H. (advisor)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 1992
• Subjects: Frozen ground > Nunavut > Ellesmere Island; Ellesmere Island; Fosheim Peninsula; Nunavut; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56907

This thesis investigates the nature and distribution of ground ice occurrences on the central Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, and assesses the potential for thermokarst in light of possible climatic warming. Field observations conducted in 1990 and 1991 involved geomorphological and cryostratig...