Pingo investigations, North-Central banks Island, Canadian Arctic.

peer reviewed A number of pingo-like mounds, located in the north-central part of Banks Island, are described. The features are situated on low terraces within the valleys of the Thomsen River and its small tributary, Able Creek. Many are elongate in plan and partially collapsed in form. Sections ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Pissart, Albert, French, H. M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: National Research Council Canada 1976
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Online Access:https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/250028
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/250028/1/Pingo%20investigations%2c%20North-Central%20banks%20Island.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1139/e76-096
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Summary:peer reviewed A number of pingo-like mounds, located in the north-central part of Banks Island, are described. The features are situated on low terraces within the valleys of the Thomsen River and its small tributary, Able Creek. Many are elongate in plan and partially collapsed in form. Sections excavated over four of the mounds reveal cores of massive ice. It is hypothesized that these ice bodies are the result of both segregation and injection processes, induced by the freezing of localized sub-channel taliks.