A model of coastal evolution in a transgressed thermokarst topography, Canadian Beaufort Sea

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Ruz, Marie-Hélène, Hill, Philip, Héquette, Arnaud
• Other Authors: Centre d'Etudes Nordiques (CEN), Université Laval Québec (ULaval)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 1992
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Barrier Islands; Beaufort Sea; Thermokarst; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04314565; https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(92)90133-3

The coast of the Southern Canadian Beaufort Sea consists of bluffs of ice-bearing Quaternary sediments, and of spits and barrier islands enclosing (more or less completely) lagoons and complex embayments formed by the breaching of thaw lakes. The study of the evolution of this coast developed in a t...