Quantifying the mechanisms and wider impacts of accelerated erosion in ice-rich permafrost coasts

• Main Authors: Lim, Michael, Whalen, Dustin, Fraser, Paul, Warren, Craig, Kostylev, Vladimir, Malenfant, Francois, Clark, Andrew, Moorman, Brian, Hayes, Sam, Mann, Paul
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/36987/

Analyses of the Western Canadian Arctic coastline have revealed substantial increases (up to 110%) in coastal erosion over the last two decades, following a sustained period of relatively consistent retreat since the first aerial surveys in the 1950s. Arctic permafrost cliffs comprise over 34% of th...