Stratigraphy and glaciotectonics structures of a relict deforming bed of permafrost at the northwestern margin of the Laurentide ice sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Canada

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Murton, Julian B., Waller, Richard I., Hart, Jane K., Whiteman, Colin A., Pollard, Wayne H., Clark, Ian D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; glacier*; Ice; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/55432/

The upper 5-20 m of ice-rich permafrost at three sites overridden by the northwest margin of the Laurentide ice sheet in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada, comprise massive ice beneath ice-rich diamicton or sandy silt. The diamicton and silt contain (1) truncated ice blocks up to 15...