Ground‐ice stratigraphy and formation at North Head, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada: a product of glacier–permafrost interactions

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Julian B. Murton
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; glacier*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.513

Glacially deformed permafrost at North Head, in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands of western Arctic Canada, contains a complex ground‐ice stratigraphy that formed during the course of the last glacial–interglacial cycle. Two generations of ground ice are distinguished within a single stratigraphic sequence...