Thaw responses in degrading permafrost
ABSTRACT The Norman Wells pipeline has operated for over 20 years, transporting crude oil from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories to Zama, Alberta. The pipeline route traverses 869 lun of discontinuous permafrost. The stability of the slopes along the route required that rapid thawing of ice-rich p...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1088.7724 http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/data/Conferences/IPC2006/71479/955_1.pdf |