Permafrost at the Ice Base of Recent Pleistocene Glaciations–Inferences from Borehole Temperature Profiles

• Main Author: Majorowicz, Jacek
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu 2012
• Subjects: Paleoclimate at last glaciation; permafrost under glacial; paleopermafrost; temperature profiles; Greenland; Rusty Glacier; Yukon; Fennoscandian; glacier; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: https://apcz.umk.pl/BOGPGS/article/view/v10250-012-0001-x

Paleo-temperature reconstruction from precise depth (>2.0 km) well temperature logs can offer information on whether the bed of an ice sheet was frozen. Inversion or upward extrapolation of the >2-km-deep geothermal profile is the only method by which temperature evolution at the base of long-...