Short- and long-term thermo-erosion of ice-rich permafrost coasts in the Laptev Sea region

Permafrost coasts in the Arctic are susceptible to a variety of changing environmental factors all of which currently point to increasing coastal erosion rates and mass fluxes of sediment and carbon to the shallow arctic shelf seas. Rapid erosion along high yedoma coasts composed of Ice Complex p...

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Main Authors: F. Günther, P. P. Overduin, A. V. Sandakov, G. Grosse, M. N. Grigoriev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-06-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/4297/2013/bg-10-4297-2013.pdf