Isotopic ratios and ion composition of massive ground ice on Herschel Island

• Main Authors: Fritz, Michael, Wetterich, Sebastian, Meyer, Hanno, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Lantuit, Hugues, Pollard, Wayne H
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Herschel Island; Ice; Ice Sheet; International Polar Year; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.809946; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809946

Herschel Island in the southern Beaufort Sea is a push moraine at the northwestern-most limit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Stable water isotope (d18O, dD) and hydrochemical studies were applied to two tabular massive ground ice bodies to unravel their genetic origin. Buried glacier ice or basal rege...