Origin and Significance of Wet Spots on Scraped Surfaces in the High Arctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Price, Larry W., Bliss, L.C., Svoboda, Josef
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1974
• Subjects: Active layer; Arctic; Hercules; King Christian Island; Northwest Territories; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65939

In the western Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, where most of the petroleum exploration in the High Arctic is being conducted, much of the low lying land is covered with sorted and non-sorted circles and polygons 0.5-2.0 m in diameter. . Much of the oil-camp construction takes place o...