The Collapse of Solifluction Lobes as a Factor in Vegetating Blockfields

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Price, Larry W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1969
• Subjects: Active layer; Creep; Frozen ground; Mass wasting; Permafrost; Plant cover; Plant distribution; Plant-soil relationships; Plants (Biology); Slopes; Ruby Range; Yukon; Arctic; Lent; permafrost
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66281

In the Ruby Mt area of southwestern Yukon, tongues and islands of vegetation occur in certain blockfields, which through normal processes develop soil and vegetation only very slowly, due to a lack of near-surface water and great diurnal temperature extremes during summer. The collapse occurs when t...