Sedimentology of Colour Lake, a nonglacial High Arctic lake, Axel Heiberg Island, NWT, Canada
Under modern conditions, the annual contribution of lake shore gelifluction to lake sedimentation is estimated at approximately 15 to 30%. The remainder of the modern annual sedimentation rate of 0.2 mm yr-1 is made up mostly by stream inflow, which also contains geliflucted sediments. Late Holocene...
Published in: | Arctic and Alpine Research |
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LSU Digital Commons
1993
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/695 https://doi.org/10.2307/1551918 |