| Title | Electrical geophysics applied to assessing permafrost conditions in Pangnirtung, Nunavut |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
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| Author | Oldenborger, G A |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6725, 2010, 41 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/287267  Open Access |
| Year | 2010 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Nunavut |
| NTS | 26I/04 |
| Area | Pangnirtung |
| Lat/Long WENS | -66.0000 -65.5000 66.2500 66.0000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; surficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; electrical surveying; electrical surveys; geophysical surveys; electrical resistivity; resistivity; resistivity surveys; permafrost;
freezing ground; ground ice |
| Illustrations | tables; diagrams; location maps; photographs; profiles |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience |
| Released | 2010 12 09 |
| Abstract | As part of the project "Building Resilience to Climate Change in Canadian Communities" within the Climate Change Geoscience Program of Natural Resources Canada, electrical geophysical experiments were
conducted in and around the hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut in August 2009. Two-dimensional electrical resistivity imaging was performed in an effort to aid permafrost characterization and landscape hazard mapping efforts in the small Inuit community
on Baffin Island. The electrical geophysical data were collected in conjunction with georadar data, geomorphologic mapping and shallow borehole drilling (see LeBlanc et al., 2010). The geophysical data are more extensive, spatially continuous, and
provide deeper subsurface information than the mapping and drilling data. However, the geophysical data provide proxy measurements of geology and permafrost conditions, and are thus subject to interpretation and should be considered as complementary
to other forms of terrain and permafrost assessment. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 287267 |
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