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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Main Author: Jim Oswell
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Norman Wells
Northwest Territories
Ice
permafrost
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

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