Changes in Permafrost Distribution Produced by a Migrating River Meander in the Northern Yukon, Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Crampton, C.B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1979
• Subjects: Permafrost; Rivers; Spatial distribution; Stream erosion; Eagle River; Yukon; Arctic; Canada; Talik; permafrost
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65665

Drill hole data from the Eagle River crossing by the Dempster Highway near the Arctic Circle have been interpreted on the basis of point bars formed by a migrating meander loop and dated by tree core ring counts. In the wake of the migrating meander loop, two waves of changes in the state of permafrost have penetrated downwards into the ground, associated with a downward migrating and thickening interpermafrost talik layer containing water under pressure.