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Record #125777:

Sand wedges and permafrost history, Crumbling Point, Pleistocene Mackenzie delta, Canada / Julian B. Murton, Hugh M. French.

Title: Sand wedges and permafrost history, Crumbling Point, Pleistocene Mackenzie delta, Canada / Julian B. Murton, Hugh M. French.
Author(s): Murton, Julian B.
French, Hugh M.
Date: 1993.
Publisher: Wushan, Guangzhou: South China University of Technology Press
In: Permafrost. Sixth International Conference. Proceedings (Vol. 1), July 5-9, 1993, Beijing China. (1993.),
Abstract: At this location, large sand wedges (up to 10 m deep and 4 m wide) penetrate deformed icy sediments and massive ice, and underlie discontinuous veneer of aeolian sand. Probably formed in cold dry conditions in Middle to Late Wisconsinan. During Late Wisconsinan--Early Holocene warm period, regional thermokarst formed secondary thaw contact beneath meltout diamicton. Since this warm interval, ice veins and wedges have formed, many superimposed within sand wedges.
Notes:

In: Permafrost. Sixth International Conference. Proceedings (Vol. 1), July 5-9, 1993, Beijing China / International Conference on Permafrost.

Keywords: 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground.
551.345.3 -- Permafrost, composition and structure. Ice wedges.
E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*440) -- Northwest Territories.
(*470) -- Mackenzie District.
SPRI record no.: 125777

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