Dynamics of active‐layer detachment failures, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Antoni G. Lewkowicz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Canada; Ellesmere Island; Fosheim Peninsula; Nunavut
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.578

Dozens of fresh active‐layer detachments were observed on the Fosheim Peninsula in late‐summer 2005 following one week of high air temperatures and nearly continuous bright sunshine. One of these shallow translational landslides started as a minor movement on an upper, steeper slope segment but over...