Recent advances in the study of Arctic submarine permafrost

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Angelopoulos, Michael, Overduin, Pier P., Miesner, Frederieke, Grigoriev, Mikhail N., Vasiliev, Alexander A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: ddc:551.38; Arctic; offshore; submarine permafrost; subsea; thaw rates; Arctic Ocean; East Siberian Shelf; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2061; http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/8785

Submarine permafrost is perennially cryotic earth material that lies offshore. Most submarine permafrost is relict terrestrial permafrost beneath the Arctic shelf seas, was inundated after the last glaciation, and has been warming and thawing ever since. As a reservoir and confining layer for gas hy...