Characteristics and radiocarbon ages of four retrogressive thaw slumps on Herschel Island and King Point

• Main Authors: Lantuit, Hugues, Pollard, Wayne H, Couture, Nicole, Fritz, Michael, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Meyer, Hanno, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; Herschel; Herschel Island; International Polar Year; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Tundra; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.810045; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.810045

Four retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) located on Herschel Island and the Yukon coast (King Point) in the western Canadian Arctic were investigated to compare the environmental, sedimentological and geochemical setting and characteristics of zones in active and stabilised slumps and at undisturbed sit...