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MARC recordDeeply dissected tundra polygons on a glacio-fluvial outwash plain, northern Ungava Peninsula, Québec / James T. Gray, Matti Seppälä.
| Title: | Deeply dissected tundra polygons on a glacio-fluvial outwash plain, northern Ungava Peninsula, Québec / James T. Gray, Matti Seppälä. |
| Author(s): | Gray, James T. Seppälä, Matti. |
| Date: | 1991. |
| In: | Géographie Physique et Quaternaire. (1991.), Vol. 45(1) (1991) |
| Abstract: | Describes recent observations of polygon network formed in this area of continuous permafrost. Most distinctive feature is depth of furrows on margins (0.5 to 2.0 m). Formed after deglaciation, about 7.5 ka BP. |
| Notes: | Géographie Physique et Quaternaire. Vol. 45(1) :111-117 (1991). |
| Keywords: | 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground. 551.345.3 -- Permafrost, composition and structure. Ice wedges. 551.343.2 -- Cryoturbation and patterned ground. E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost. (*41) -- Canada. (*424.1) -- Quebec, northern. |
| SPRI record no.: | 110928 |
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