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Record #88403:

Permafrost and land-use problems - two case studies from the Northwest Territories of Canada / Peter Worsley.

Title: Permafrost and land-use problems - two case studies from the Northwest Territories of Canada / Peter Worsley.
Author(s): Worsley, Peter.
Date: 1987.
Publisher: Leeds: University of Leeds, Regional Canadian Studies Centre
In: Arctic Canada : development in a hostile environment. Papers presented at a Conference on the Canadian Arctic held at the University of Leeds, October, 1987. (1987.),
Abstract: Description of the distribution of permafrost in northern Canada and specific studies of its effects on construction methods and land use in Sachs Harbour and Inuvik.
Notes:

In: Arctic Canada : development in a hostile environment. Papers presented at a Conference on the Canadian Arctic held at the University of Leeds, October, 1987 / Ken Atkinson, Adrian T. McDonald, eds.

Keywords: 551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology.
69(211) -- Building construction in cold regions.
624.139.2 -- Frozen ground, effects.
E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*440) -- Northwest Territories.
SPRI record no.: 88403

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