Importance of Glacier-Permafrost Interactions in the Preservation of a Proglacial Icing: Fountain Glacier, Bylot Island, Canada
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...
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2008
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.557.2120 http://people.ucalgary.ca/~moorman/WNICOP2008.pdf |