Sedimentology of Colour Lake, a nonglacial High Arctic lake, Axel Heiberg Island, NWT, Canada

• Published in: Arctic and Alpine Research
• Main Author: Doran, P. T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 1993
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Arctic Lake; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/695; https://doi.org/10.2307/1551918

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...