Salinization of permafrost terrain due to natural geomorphic disturbance, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island

Arctic

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 372-385

  Kokelj, Steven V ^a,b   Lewkowicz, Antoni G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic ecology; Climatic warming; Efflorescence; Geomorphic disturbance; Permafrost; Salinization; Transport of dissolved solids

Indexed keywords

PERMAFROST; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; SALINIZATION;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; FOSHEIM PENINSULA;

EID: 0033389875     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic942     Document Type: Article

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