Uncovering a 70-year-old permafrost degradation induced disaster in the Arctic, the 1952 Niiortuut landslide-tsunami in central West Greenland
International audience On December 15th 1952, at approximately 14:00 local time a mass of 5.9 × 106 m3 of permafrozen talus deposits failed in a landslide close to the Niiortuut mountain on the south coast of the Nuussuaq peninsula, central West Greenland. Between 1.8 and 4.5 × 106 m3 of the materia...
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Published in: | Science of The Total Environment |
Main Authors: |
Svennevig, Kristian,
Keiding, Marie,
Korsgaard, Niels, Jákup,
Lucas, Antoine,
Owen, Matthew,
Poulsen, Majken, Djurhuus,
Priebe, Janina,
Sørensen, Erik, Vest,
Morino, Costanza |
Other Authors: |
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)),
Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité),
Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne (EDYTEM),
Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),
ANR-18-IDEX-0001,Université de Paris,Université de Paris(2018),
ANR-19-CE01-0010,Permolards,Les molards, marqueurs de l'évolution de la dégradation du pergélisol de montagne(2019),
ANR-10-LABX-0023,UnivEarthS,Earth - Planets - Universe: observation, modeling, transfer(2010) |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper
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Language: | English |
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HAL CCSD
2022
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Online Access: | https://hal.science/hal-03846381
https://hal.science/hal-03846381/document
https://hal.science/hal-03846381/file/1-s2.0-S0048969722072102-main.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160110
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