Permafrost and Thermokarst Lake Dynamics in the Old Crow Flats, Northern Yukon, Canada

• Main Author: Roy-Leveillee, Pascale
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Yukon; Canada; Talik; Old Crow Flats; The Flats; Ice; Old Crow; permafrost; Thermokarst; Tundra; wedge*
• Online Access: https://curve.carleton.ca/e0fe1f04-5de1-41b2-92eb-fb4495f715af; http://catalogue.library.carleton.ca/record=; https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2015-10757

Aspects of the thaw lake cycle were investigated in Old Crow Flats (OCF), a 5600 km2 peatland with thousands of thermokarst lakes in the continuous permafrost of northern Yukon. It is located in the traditional territory of the Vuntut Gwitch'n, who expressed concern that climatic change may be...