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OKIsItJustMe

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Fri Feb 17, 2017, 04:01 PM Feb 2017

Climate-Driven Permafrost Thaw

http://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/Releases/GSA/News/pr/2017/17-04.aspx
[font face=Serif][font size=5]Climate-Driven Permafrost Thaw[/font]

[font size=3]Boulder, Colo., USA – In bitter cold regions like northwestern Canada, permafrost has preserved relict ground-ice and vast glacial sedimentary stores in a quasi-stable state. These landscapes therefore retain a high potential for climate-driven transformation.

In their open-access GEOLOGY article published online on 7 Feb. 2017, Steven Kokelj of the Northwest Territories Geological Survey and colleagues write that climate-driven renewal of deglaciation and potential postglacial permafrost landscape evolution has major implications for predicting the nature and trajectories of northern landscape change and the cascade of downstream impacts.

They show that mapping across 1.27 million square kilometers of northwestern Canada points to large thaw-induced slope disturbances (thaw slumps) that delineate the margins of former ice sheets. Recent intensification of this thaw slumping has mobilized primary glacial sediments, triggering a cascade of fluvial, lacustrine, and coastal effects.

[font size=1] Megaslumps in fluvially incised hummocky moraine, Peel Plateau, northwestern Canada. Image courtesy Steven V. Kokelj[/font]


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http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G38626.1
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Climate-Driven Permafrost Thaw (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Feb 2017 OP
One rarely hears about "megaslumps in fluvially incised hummocky moraines" any more. longship Feb 2017 #1
Yeah, these kids today and their "thermokarsting"! hatrack Feb 2017 #2
Great article, thanks for posting! Canoe52 Feb 2017 #3
You're welcome! OKIsItJustMe Feb 2017 #4

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. One rarely hears about "megaslumps in fluvially incised hummocky moraines" any more.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 05:21 PM
Feb 2017

Where are those olden days? It looks like they're coming back.

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