Icing Mound on Sadlerochit River, Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Lewis, C.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1962
• Subjects: Fast ice; Measurement; Pancake ice; Physical properties; Salinity; Sea ice; Spatial distribution; Strength; North Star Bugt; Greenland; Arctic; North Star; Pancake; Ice; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66615

Describes an upward arch of soil and ice and its associated aufeis field, examined on the Arctic Slope in northeast Alaska on June 25, 1959. The icing mound consisted of a sinuous ridge about 250 ft. long which terminated in a low dome about 20 ft. high at the north end and in a lower pointed "...