Importance of Glacier-Permafrost Interactions in the Preservation of a Proglacial Icing: Fountain Glacier, Bylot Island, Canada

• Main Authors: Pablo A. Wainstein, Brian J. Moorman, Ken Whitehead
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Bylot Island; glacial hydrology; glacier; GPR; icing; naled; Arctic; Canada; Fountain Glacier; glacier*; permafrost
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.557.2120; http://people.ucalgary.ca/~moorman/WNICOP2008.pdf

Fountain Glacier is hydrologically unique in the Canadian Arctic for the large perennial icing in its proglacial valley. It is hypothesized that the icing holds information on the glacier hydrology and the role permafrost has on the overall hydrological system. A spring first observed in 1991, down...