Syngenetic dynamic of permafrost of a polar desert solifluction lobe, Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Manuel Verpaelst, Daniel Fortier, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Michel Paquette, Yuri Shur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2017
• Subjects: solifluction lobe; cryostratigraphy; syngenetic permafrost; ground ice; polar desert; geo; envir; Nunavut; Ward Hunt Island; Arctic; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2016-0018; https://doaj.org/article/2579f02ae7d3410285c511f6b2d3c29c

Repeated freeze–thaw cycles on slopes trigger sorting and solifluction mass movements, while subsequent displacement of material modifies the geomorphology of slopes as well as permafrost dynamics. This study focuses on the geomorphology and the cryostratigraphy of a polar desert stone-banked solifl...