Climate and Terrain Characteristics Linked to Mud Ejection Occurrence in the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Holloway, Jean E., Lamoureux, Scott F., Montro, Scott N., Lafrenère, Melissa J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Permafrost; Mud Ejections; Climate; Active-Layer Dynamics; Remote Sensing; Permafrost Disturbance; Arctic; Cape Bounty; Nunavut; permafrost; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/14587; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1870

Pressurised slurries of fine-grained sediment expelled from the base of the active layer have been observed in recent years in the High Arctic. Such mud ejections, however, are poorly understood in terms of how exactly climate and landscape factors determine when and where they occur. Mud ejections...