The effect of detachment sliding on surface wash erosion in the continuous permafrost zone, Hot Weather Creek, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories.

• Main Author: Kokelj, Steven V.
• Other Authors: Lewkowicz, Antoni
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1998
• Subjects: Physical Geography; Ellesmere Island; Fosheim Peninsula; Hot Weather Creek; Northwest Territories; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4070; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-10084

An experimental design was developed to evaluate the effect of active-layer detachment sliding on surface wash erosion. Specifically, the aim was to examine to what extent the disturbance of vegetation cover, changes in hydrological conditions due to topographic modification by detachment sliding an...