Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada)

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: S. Coulombe, D. Fortier, D. Lacelle, M. Kanevskiy, Y. Shur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Arctic; Nunavut; Bylot Island; Canada; Barnes Ice Cap; glacier*; Ice; Ice cap; permafrost; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-97-2019; https://doaj.org/article/612561caed7b4d9aaedc0691edb024ec

Over the past decades, observations of buried glacier ice exposed in coastal bluffs and headwalls of retrogressive thaw slumps of the Arctic have indicated that considerable amounts of late Pleistocene glacier ice survived the deglaciation and are still preserved in permafrost. In exposures, relict...