Pingos of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula Area, Northwest Territories

• Published in: Géographie physique et Quaternaire
• Main Author: Mackay, J. Ross
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal 1979
• Subjects: Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; Rapid Lake; Ice; ice core; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1000322ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1000322ar

Most pingos have grown in residual ponds left behind by rapid lake drainage through erosion of ice-wedge polygon systems. The field studies (1969-78) have involved precise levelling of numerous bench marks, extensive drilling, detailed temperature measurements, installation of water pressure transdu...