Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada)

<p>Over the past decades, observations of buried glacier ice exposed in coastal bluffs and headwalls of retrogressive thaw slumps of the Arctic have indicated that considerable amounts of late Pleistocene glacier ice survived the deglaciation and are still preserved in permafrost. In exposures...

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Main Authors: S. Coulombe, D. Fortier, D. Lacelle, M. Kanevskiy, Y. Shur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2019-01-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/97/2019/tc-13-97-2019.pdf