Coastal dune development in a thermokarst environment: Some implications for environmental reconstruction, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula N.W.T.

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Marie‐Hélène Ruz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Barrier Islands; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.3430040307

The landscape of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula coastal plain, Northwest Territories, has been strongly affected by thermokarst processes. Along thermokarst lakes developed in glacio‐fluvial sands lake‐shore dunes are common. Their formation seems related to complete or partial lake drainage. During the...