The Physical, Chemical, and Biological Effects of Crude Oil Spills after 15 Years on a Black Spruce Forest, Interior Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Collins, Charles M., Racine, Charles H., Walsh, Marianne E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1994
• Subjects: Black spruces; Environmental impacts; Frozen ground; Oil spills on land; Soil percolation; Soil profiles; Thawing; Plant cover; Thaw settlement; Active layer; Caribou Creek (65 09 N; 147 29 W); Alaska; Poker Creek (65 08 N; 147 28 W); Noire; Poker Creek; Arctic; Linaigrette de Scheuchzer; permafrost; taiga; Cotton-grass; linaigrette; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64341

The effects of two large experimental crude oil spills conducted in the winter and summer of 1976 in a permafrost-underlain black spruce forest of interior Alaska were assessed 15 years after the spills. Effects on permafrost, as determined from measurements of active layer thaw depths and of the to...