Tapped lakes as sediment traps in an Arctic delta
Lakes within the Colville River delta in northern Alaska, USA, vary in size from small ponds created by ice-wedge growth to thaw lakes that are as much as three kilometres long and ten metres deep. As the river migrates, lake edges are breached and the lakes are drained. Such lake tapping is aided b...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d0f47aa64df5419ea49aa4115e808196 2023-05-15T15:02:57+02:00 Tapped lakes as sediment traps in an Arctic delta J. Walker M. McGraw 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-367-407-2015 https://doaj.org/article/d0f47aa64df5419ea49aa4115e808196 EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.proc-iahs.net/367/407/2015/piahs-367-407-2015.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/2199-8981 https://doaj.org/toc/2199-899X doi:10.5194/piahs-367-407-2015 2199-8981 2199-899X https://doaj.org/article/d0f47aa64df5419ea49aa4115e808196 Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Vol 367, Pp 407-412 (2015) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-367-407-2015 2022-12-31T00:36:20Z Lakes within the Colville River delta in northern Alaska, USA, vary in size from small ponds created by ice-wedge growth to thaw lakes that are as much as three kilometres long and ten metres deep. As the river migrates, lake edges are breached and the lakes are drained. Such lake tapping is aided by permafrost thaw and ice wedge melt and, in the case of the larger lakes, by wave action within them. Once a lake is tapped, it drains rapidly creating a deep scour hole at its entrance and from then on it is subject to the varying stages and discharge of the river. During flooding, when the river is transporting its largest amount of sediment, the tapped lakes become settling basins and rapidly fill. The Colville River delta has lakes in all stages from freshly breached to those that are now being destroyed by channel migration. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Ice permafrost wedge* Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 367 407 412 |
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Lakes within the Colville River delta in northern Alaska, USA, vary in size from small ponds created by ice-wedge growth to thaw lakes that are as much as three kilometres long and ten metres deep. As the river migrates, lake edges are breached and the lakes are drained. Such lake tapping is aided by permafrost thaw and ice wedge melt and, in the case of the larger lakes, by wave action within them. Once a lake is tapped, it drains rapidly creating a deep scour hole at its entrance and from then on it is subject to the varying stages and discharge of the river. During flooding, when the river is transporting its largest amount of sediment, the tapped lakes become settling basins and rapidly fill. The Colville River delta has lakes in all stages from freshly breached to those that are now being destroyed by channel migration. |
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