Thermal performance of a section of the MacKenzie Highway

• Main Author: Goodrich, L. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: permafrost; pergélisol; soils; sol (terre); highways; route principale; thermal properties; propriété thermique; climates; climat; seasons; saison; cold regions; zone froide; shallow road embankment; hourly ground temperatures; settlement; thermal conductivity probes; permafrost degradation; Mackenzie Valley
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The thermal performance of a shallow road embankment constructed on permafrost in the discontinuous zone of the Mackenzie Valley was monitored over a 5-year period. The shallow (1.2 m) embankment consisted of clean borrow material end dumped on a right-of-way which had previously been cleared of tre...