Nearshore geohazards in the southern Beaufort sea, Canada

Proceedings of the Biennial International Pipeline Conference, IPC

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 281-289

  Solomon, Steven M ^a   Forbes, Donald L ^a   Fraser, Paul ^a   Moorman, Brian ^b   Stevens, Christopher W ^b   Whalen, Dustin ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAUFORT SEA; GEOHAZARDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE ZONES; LAND-FAST; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; NEAR-SURFACE; NEARSHORES; SCOUR DEPTH; SIDE SCAN SONAR; WATER DEPTH;

BATHYMETRY; EROSION; ICE; MINES; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

PIPELINES;

EID: 70350033763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IPC2008-64349     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (21)

1. Blasco, S.M., Fortin, G, Hill, P.R., O'Connor, M, and Brigham-Grette, J. 1990. The late Neogene and Quaternary stratigraphy of the Canadian beaufort Continental Shelf. In A. grantz, L. Johnson, an J.F. Sweeney (editors), The Geology of North America, L. The Arctic Region. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 91-502
2. Dallimore, S.R. Kurfurst, P.J. & Hunter, J.A.M. 1988.Geotechnical and geothermal conditions of nearshore sediment, southerm Beaufort Sea, Northwest Territories,Canada. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Permafrost, Trondheim, Norway. 127-131.
3. Dyke, L.D. 1991. Temperature changes and thaw of permafrost adjacent to Richards Island, Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 28: 1834-1842.
4. Henry, R.F. 1975. Storm surges. Environment Canada,Beaufort Sea Project, Technical Report #19, 41.
5. Hequette, A., Desrosiers, M. and Barnes, P.W. 1995. Sea ice scouring on the inner shelf of the southeastern Canadian Beaufort Sea. Marine Geology, volume 128, pp. 201-219.
6. Hill, P.R., Lewis, CP., Desmarais, S., Kauppaymuthoo, V. & Rais, H. 2001. The Mackenzie Delta: sedimentary processes and facies of a high-latitude, fine-grained delta.Sedimentology, 48: 1047-1078.
7. Hunter, J.A.M. 1988. Permafrost aggradation and degradation on Arctic coasts of North America. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Permafrost. Aug. 2-5, 1988 Ed. K. Senneset. Tapir Publishers, Trondheim. Volume 1, pp. 27-34., pp. 127-131.
8. Jenner, K.A., Hill, P.R., 1998. Recent, arctic deltaic sedimentation, Olivier Islands, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. Sedimentology 45, 987-1004.
9. Judge, A.S., Pelletier, B.R. & Norquay, I. 1987. Permafrost base and distribution of gas hydrates. In, B.R. Pelletier, ed.Marine science atlas of the Beaufort Sea: geology and geophysics. Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 40. Map 39
10. Leidersdorf, C.B., Hearon, G.E., Vaudrey, K.D. and Swank, G. 2006, Strudel scour formation off Arctic River Delta. Proceedings of the International Conference on Coastal Engineering, San Diego, California, pp. 5312-5324.
11. Macdonald, R. & Carmack, E. 1991. The role of large-scale under-ice topography in separating estuary and ocean on an Arctic shelf. Atmosphere-Ocean, 29:37-53.
12. Morris, K., Jeffries, M.O. and Weeks, W.F. 1995. Ice processes and growth history on Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes using ERS-1 SARdata. Polar Record, v. 31, pp 115-128.
13. Osterkamp, T.E.; Baker, G.C., Harrison, W.D., & Matava, T. 1989. Characteristics of the active layer and shallow subsea permafrost. Journal of Geophysical Research, 94, C11:16227-16236.
14. Pullan, S., MacAulay, H.A., Hunter, J.A.M., Good, R.L.,Gagne, R.M. & Burns, R.A., 1987. Permafrost distribution determined from seismic refraction. In, B.R. Pelletier, ed. Marine science atlas of the Beaufort Sea: geology and geophysics. Geological Survey of Canada, Miscellaneous Report 40. Map 37.
15. Reimnitz, E., Rodeick, C.R., and Wolf, S.C. 1974. Strudel scour: a unique arctic marine geologic phenomenon. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. Volume 44, pp.409-420
16. Solomon, S.M., Fraser, P., & Manson, G. 2005. Nearshore morphology derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Beaufort Sea. Proceedings of the 12 th Canadian Coastal Conference, November 6-9, 2005, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
17. Solomon, S.M., Talyor, A. and Stevens, C.W. in press Nearshore ground temperatures, seasonal ice bonding and permafrost formation within the bottomfast ice zone, Mackenzie Delta, NWT. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska.
18. Stevens, C.W., Moorman, B.J., Solomon, S.M. in press. Detection of frozen and unfrozen interfaces with Ground Penetrating Radar in the near-shore zone of the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska.
19. Spedding, L.G. 1983. A large landfast ice movement.Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Port and Harbor Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo. Volume 3, pp.203-213.
20. Wickham, J.T., Campbell, K.J. and Meadow, H.M. 1982."Duck Island/Sag Delta Development Project Strudel Scour Investigation". McCelland Engineers, Inc., Venture, Califronia, 47 pp. plus appendices.
21. Wolfe, S.A, Dallimore, S.R. & Solomon, S.M.. 1998. Coastal permafrost investigations along a rapidly eroding shoreline,Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. Eds. Lewkowicz, A.G. and Allard, M Proceeedings of the 7th International Conference on Permafrost, pp. 1125 -1131.