Proceedings of a Symposium on Permafrost Field Methods 3 October 1977 and Permafrost Geophysics 4 October 1977

• Main Authors: Scott, W. J., Brown, R. J. E.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: National Research Council of Canada. Associate Committee on Geotechnical Research 1977
• Subjects: permafrost; pergélisol; soils; sol; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Mackenzie River; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Ice; Mackenzie river; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4224/40001171; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/ft/?id=083ba410-90aa-454f-bc56-6a7e4ef42a9d; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=083ba410-90aa-454f-bc56-6a7e4ef42a9d; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=083ba410-90aa-454f-bc56-6a7e4ef42a9d

Papers include: The interpretation of permafrost terrain in space imagery; A method od determining the bulk moisture content of cores and natural exposures of ground ice; Techniques for core drilling in frozen soils; The use of hydraulic drilling methods to study offshore bottom permafrost; Field pressuremeter and penetrometer testing in frozen soils; Field measurements of permafrost ground temperatures; Transient probe apparatus for soil thermal conductivity measurements; Geophysical measurements in the permafrost zone: Canadian Arctic islands; Gas seeps, permafrost and acousitc voids in teh Southern Beaufort Sea; Estimate of permafrost thickness using seismic velocities; Permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta: a detailed study around by SUN BVX et al UNARK L-24A Wellsite; Permafrost determination by seismic velocity analyses; Offshore permafrost deistribution in the Beaufort Sea as determined from temperature ans seismic observations; Radar soundings in coarse grained permafrost materials in the Yukon territory; Electromagnetic geophysical exploration in the National Pertroleum Reserve in Alaska; Temperature measurements under Arctic rivers; Field methods and preliminary results from subsea permafrost investigations in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska; Influence of porewater salinity on acousitc properties of sedimentary rocks at permafrost temperatures; Recent results of velocity measurements on uncosolidated permafrost specimens from the Mackenzie River Valley; Low temperature effect on porewater in rocks and soils. Peer reviewed: No NRC publication: Yes