Permafrost at the ice base of recent pleistocene glaciations–inferences from borehole temperature profiles

• Main Author: Majorowicz, J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Paleoclimate at last glaciation; Permafrost under glacial; Temperature profiles; Paleopermafrost; Greenland; Rusty Glacier; Yukon; Fennoscandian; glacier; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/d320cec2-16aa-4d80-ac8c-73a18636cb8f; https://doi.org/10.7939/R3WS8HQ5X

Paleo-temperature reconstruction from precise depth (>2.0 km) well temperature logs can offer information on whether the bed of an ice sheet was frozen. Inversion or upward extrapolation of the >2-km-deep geothermal profile is the only method by which temperature evolution at the base of long-...