Auscultation du pergélisol par méthodes géo-électriques : tomographie de polarisation provoquée, diagraphie et tomographie de résistivité électrique en forages

In Nunavik (Québec), frost-susceptible marine sediments were deposited along the coasts of Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay after their deglaciation and during the subsequent marine transgression. Following the postglacial emersion due to the isostatic uplift, the marine deposits came in contact with the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: El Baroudi, Majid
Other Authors: Fortier, Richard
Format: Thesis
Language:French
Published: Université Laval 2018
Subjects:
geo
Ice
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29864
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Summary:In Nunavik (Québec), frost-susceptible marine sediments were deposited along the coasts of Hudson Bay and Ungava Bay after their deglaciation and during the subsequent marine transgression. Following the postglacial emersion due to the isostatic uplift, the marine deposits came in contact with the cold air and ice-rich permafrost formed in these deposits. Therefore, the Inuit communities located along the coasts of Nunavik may be built on ice-rich permafrost and their infrastructures may be vulnerable to permafrost degradation. This vulnerability may impact the sustainable development of these communities affecting the performance, maintenance costs and service life of their infrastructures. In answer to the needs of efficient permafrost investigation in cold regions engineering to avoid zones vulnerable or use mitigation method to permafrost degradation, the main goals of this doctoral research project are: 1) to assess a conceptual geocryological model of an ice-rich permafrost mound in the discontinuous permafrost zone in Nunavik from the interpretation of five cone penetration tests carried out in the mound, 2) taking into account the previous model and using the forward modelling approach in geophysics, to develop an innovative geophysical approach based on different geo-electrical methods for permafrost investigation, 3) to test this geophysical approach for the characterization of the previous ice-rich permafrost mound, and 4) to contribute to knowledge development on the geocryology of permafrost mounds in Nunavik. The study site is located in a deep valley near the Inuit community of Umiujaq along the east coast of Hudson Bay. Permafrost environments characteristic of Nunavik such as ice-rich permafrost mounds are found in this valley which is accessible from this community. The research methodology consists in using the forward modelling approach in geophysics taking into account the conceptual geocryological model of the studied ice-rich permafrost mound to design the geophysical investigation based ...