Modern and Late Holocene Retrogressive Thaw Slump Activity on the Yukon Coastal Plain and Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-51

  Lantuit, H ^a   Pollard, W H ^b   Couture, N ^b,c   Fritz, M ^a   Schirrmeister, L ^a   Meyer, H ^a   Hubberten, H W ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Holocene; Retrogressive thaw slump; Thermokarst; Yukon

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL PLAIN; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RETROGRESSION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLUMPING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOKARST; TUNDRA;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; HERSCHEL ISLAND; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 84858169596     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1731     Document Type: Article

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