| Title | Nature and history of ground ice in the Yukon - isotope investigations |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Michel, F A |
| Source | Earth Physics Branch, Open File 85-11, 1985, 145 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/293531 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Publisher | Department of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Yukon |
| NTS | 116A/13; 116A/12; 116B; 116G; 116H; 116I; 117A/14; 117A/15; 117D/02; 117D/03; 117D/05; 117D/06 |
| Area | Dempster Highway; Mayo; Ogilvie River; Eagle River; Sabine Point; King Point; Kay Point; Herschel Island; North Fork Pass; Dawson |
| Lat/Long WENS | -140.0000 -136.0000 67.0000 64.0000 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -140.0000 -137.0000 67.7500 66.7500 |
| Subjects | surficial geology/geomorphology; geochemistry; stratigraphy; ground ice; isotopic studies; ice wedges; glaciers; moraines; glacial deposits; permafrost; landslides; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic;
Quaternary |
| Illustrations | location maps; tables; plots; profiles; sketch maps; schematic cross-sections; borehole logs; stratigraphic sections; stratigraphic cross-sections; photographs; graphs |
| Released | 1985 01 01; 2017 03 28 |
| Abstract | Massive ice and ice-rich sediments from a number of sites in central and northern Yukon have been examined stratigraphically and isotopically. Within the central Yukon, ice-wedge ice, segregated ice and
frost-blister ice have been identified. Along the northern Yukon coastal plain, massive ice and ice-rich sediments, exposed in the headwalls of progressive thaw slides, have been interpreted as ice-wedge ice, segregated ice and buried glacier ice.
The buried glacier ice, probably of early Wisconsinan age, exists near King Point, Kay Point, and on Herschel Island in what have been described as ice-thrust moraines. Each ice type displays a characteristic isotopic signature which is useful in
identifying the origin of the ice. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 293531 |
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