Permafrost cores and active layer pits on Herschel Island: link to shape files

• Main Authors: Obu, Jaroslav, Lantuit, Hugues, Myers-Smith, Isla H, Heim, Birgit, Wolter, Juliane, Fritz, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: AWI_PerDyn; HER; Herschel_Island; MULT; Multiple investigations; Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI; Herschel Island; Arctic; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.859661; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.859661

Twelve permafrost cores and active layer pits were drilled/dug on Herschel Island in order to estimate the soil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents in the first 30, 100 and 200 cm of ground. The data are shapefile points with attribute table, which contains different core information.