The Birth and Growth of Porsild Pingo, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, District of Mackenzie

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Mackay, J. Ross
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1988
• Subjects: Drainage; Etymology; Interstitial water; Lakes; Permafrost; Pingos; Frozen ground; Active layer; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; N.W.T; Arctic; Canada; Porsild Pingo; Tuktoyaktuk; Ice; permafrost; pingo; Alaska; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64785

The birth and growth of Porsild Pingo (ice-cored hill) can be taken as fairly representative of the birth and growth of the more than 2000 closed-system pingos of the western arctic coast of Canada and adjacent Alaska. Porsild Pingo, named after a distinguished arctic botanist, has grown in the bott...