Thermokarst-lake-basin sediments, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western arctic Canada

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Author: Murton, Julian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sedimentology 1996
• Subjects: G0001 Geography (General); Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/11507/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1996.tb02023.x

Three stages of deposition are distinguished in thermokarst-lake-basin sequences in ice-rich permafrost of the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western arctic Canada: (1) widespread retrogressive thaw slumping around lake margins that rapidly transports upland sediments into thermokarst lakes, forming a dist...