Ground-ice stratigraphy and formation at North Head, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada: a product of glacier-permafrost interactions

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Murton, Julian B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: John Wiley & Sons 2005
• Subjects: G0001 Geography (General); Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; glacier*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; wedge*
• Online Access: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11098/; https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.513

Glacially deformed permafrost at North Head, in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands of western Arctic Canada, contains a complex ground-ice stratigraphy that formed during the course of the last glacial–interglacial cycle. Two generations of ground ice are distinguished within a single stratigraphic sequence...