Carbon-14 as a Tracer of Soil Movement in Earth Hummocks: A Case Study From Northwestern Arctic Canada

• Main Author: Main, Brittany
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
• Subjects: Arctic Canada; hummocks; cryoturbation; radiocarbon; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Mackenzie Delta; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5742; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/34581

Involuted soil horizons and buried organic matter in the active layer and near-surface permafrost provide evidence that soil movement or cryoturbation is occurring within the active layer in hummocky terrain. Cryoturbation in the active layer of permafrost-affected soils could have significant impli...