A conceptual model for talik dynamics and icing formation in a river floodplain in the continuous permafrost zone at Salluit, Nunavik (Quebec), Canada

• Main Authors: Liu, Weibo, Fortier, Richard, Molson, John W. H., Lemieux, Jean-Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: geo; envir; Nunavik; Canada; Talik; Salluit; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/69461

Icing occurs each winter along the floodplain of the Kuuguluk River in the continuous permafrost zone at Salluit in Nunavik (Quebec), Canada. The source of successive water overflows which thicken and enlarge this ice cover over time is suprapermafrost groundwater discharging from a talik below the...