Aklisuktuk (Growing Fast) Pingo, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Northwest Territories, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Mackay, J. Ross
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Pingos; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; N.W.T; Aklisuktuk Pingo; Canada; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Arctic; glacier*; ice core
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65582

Field surveys have been carried out for the 1972 to 1979 period in order to study the growth of Aklisuktuk (Growing Fast) Pingo. The field surveys show that the top of the pingo was slowly subsiding during the seven-year survey period, possibly from a slow downslope glacier-like creep of the ice-ric...