Retrogressive Thaw Slumps: Indicators of Holocene Climate Changes in the Richardson Mountains-Peel Plateau, Northwestern Canada

• Main Author: Frappier, Roxanne
• Other Authors: Viau, André Ernest J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
• Subjects: thaw slump; climate warming; Holocene; thermokarst; permafrost; ground ice; Canada; Richardson Mountains; glacier*; Ice; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36613; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-20893

The ongoing climate warming is expected to increase thermokarst activity and their impacts by inducing permafrost degradation and active layer deepening. A retrogressive thaw slump, which represents the most dynamic thermokarst landform, was investigated in the Richardson Mountains-Peel Plateau regi...