A High Arctic frost‐creep/gelifluction slope, 1981–89: Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, Canada

Frost creep and gelifluction have been little studied in a High Arctic arid climate with ubiquitous permafrost. The paper reports the results of such a study based on theodolite observations over the period 1981–89 at Resolute Bay in the Canadian High Arctic. Along a target line on an average slope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: A. L. Washburn
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199904/06)10:23.0.CO;2-B