Issues in Canadian permafrost research
Recent Canadian research on permafrost is reviewed, concentrating on permafrost- climate relations, the processes of thermokarst, ice-wedge development, frost heave and soil convection, and ground ice studies. This field of geomorphology is often of direct interest to engineers and managers of north...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:1124 2023-05-15T15:03:16+02:00 Issues in Canadian permafrost research Burn, C. (Christopher R.) Smith, M.W. (M. W.) 1993-01-01 https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/1124 https://doi.org/10.1177/030913339301700204 en eng https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/1124 doi:10.1177/030913339301700204 Progress in Physical Geography vol. 17 no. 2, pp. 156-172 frost heave ground ice ice wedges periglacial processes permafrost and climate thermokarst info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1993 ftcarletonunivir https://doi.org/10.1177/030913339301700204 2022-02-06T21:51:57Z Recent Canadian research on permafrost is reviewed, concentrating on permafrost- climate relations, the processes of thermokarst, ice-wedge development, frost heave and soil convection, and ground ice studies. This field of geomorphology is often of direct interest to engineers and managers of northern resource development. While industrial activity in the Arctic is currently slow, concern for the effects of permafrost stability of global climate warming has stimulated research. Much of the work on the potential consequences to permafrost of climate change is by modelling: there are yet few relevant field data, although this is crucial for model evaluation. Studies of permafrost processes usually rely on geotechnical or geophysical theory too: the review concentrates on the use of field evidence in support of analytical models of landform development. Current research on ground ice is of a more geological nature: we examine approaches to the delineation and origin of massive ice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Ice permafrost Thermokarst wedge* Carleton University's Institutional Repository Arctic Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 17 2 156 172 |
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Recent Canadian research on permafrost is reviewed, concentrating on permafrost- climate relations, the processes of thermokarst, ice-wedge development, frost heave and soil convection, and ground ice studies. This field of geomorphology is often of direct interest to engineers and managers of northern resource development. While industrial activity in the Arctic is currently slow, concern for the effects of permafrost stability of global climate warming has stimulated research. Much of the work on the potential consequences to permafrost of climate change is by modelling: there are yet few relevant field data, although this is crucial for model evaluation. Studies of permafrost processes usually rely on geotechnical or geophysical theory too: the review concentrates on the use of field evidence in support of analytical models of landform development. Current research on ground ice is of a more geological nature: we examine approaches to the delineation and origin of massive ice. |
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