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Record #116698:
Canadian landform examples - 24. Thermokarst lakes / C.R. Burn.
Title: | Canadian landform examples - 24. Thermokarst lakes / C.R. Burn. |
Author(s): | Burn, C. R. |
Date: | 1992. |
In: | Canadian Geographer. (1992.), Vol. 36(1) (1992) |
Abstract: | Defined as water bodies that occupy closed depression formed by settlement of ground following melting of ground ice. Describes initiation, development, thermal regime and cessation of growth. May be useful as surface expressions of response of permafrost to climate warming, although locations are due to site-specific factors. |
Notes: | Canadian Geographer. Vol. 36(1) :81-85 (1992). |
Keywords: | 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground. 551.343 -- Periglacial processes. Thermokarst. 556.56 -- Swamps, marshes and fens. E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost. (*41) -- Canada. |
SPRI record no.: | 116698 |
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