Stratigraphy and glaciotectonic structures of permafrost deformed beneath the northwest margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, Canada.

• Main Authors: Julian Murton, Richard I Waller, Jane K Hart, Colin A Whiteman, Wayne H Pollard, Ian D Clark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Uncategorised value; Arctic; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; glacier*; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Stratigraphy_and_glaciotectonic_structures_of_permafrost_deformed_beneath_the_northwest_margin_of_the_Laurentide_Ice_Sheet_Tuktoyaktuk_Coastlands_Canada_/23320619

The upper 5^20mof ice-rich permafrost at three sites overridden by the northwest margin of the Laurentide ice sheet in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada, comprise massive ice beneath ice-rich diamicton or sandy silt. The diamicton and silt contain (1) truncated ice blocks up to 15m l...