Dynamics and Origin of Saline Soils on the Slims River Delta, Kluane National Park, Yukon Territory

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Harris, Stuart A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1990
• Subjects: saline soils; salinity; seasonal frost; solonetz; solonchak; sols salins; salinité; gel saisonnier; solontchak; Slims River; Yukon; Arctic; Kluane National Park; permafrost
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64661

The saline soils of the Slims River Delta have developed on land formed in the last 100 years in an area of otherwise continuous permafrost. Deep seasonal frost on the delta prevents downward leaching of salts when the snow melts. Instead the salts accumulate at the surface as the ground dries, whil...