| Title | Report on 2012-2017 shallow ground thermal investigations on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road portages, Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Sladen, W E; Morse, P D ; Wolfe, S A |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8274, 2018, 23 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/306454  Open Access |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; csv |
| Province | Northwest Territories |
| NTS | 85I/13; 85I/14; 85P/03; 85P/04; 85P/05; 85P/06 |
| Area | Cameron River; Gordon Lake; Great Slave Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -114.0000 -113.0000 63.5000 62.7500 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; Transport; Nature and Environment; permafrost; thermal regimes; thermal analyses; ground temperatures; transportation; planning; climate; terrain
sensitivity; in-field instrumentation; vegetation; organic deposits; frost action; surface waters; water temperature; Taiga Shield; Great Slave Upland; Slave Geological Province; Climate change; Infrastructures; Risk assessment; Road construction;
Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | geoscientific sketch maps; tables; location maps; schematic representations; aerial photographs; photographs; profiles |
| Program | Climate Change
Geoscience Permafrost |
| Program | Polar Continental Shelf Program
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| Released | 2018 01 25 |
| Abstract | A field campaign was conducted in 2012-2017 to collect baseline geoscience data to determine air, surface, and near-surface ground temperature conditions along the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road
(TCWR), Great Slave region, Northwest Territories. This field initiative was conducted in support of Natural Resources Canada's Climate Change Geoscience Program project entitled Transportation Risk in the Arctic to Climatic Sensitivity. Thermal data
are presented in a digital format that can be utilized for assessments of permafrost sensitivity to climate change and for infrastructure planning. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) conducted a field initiative to collect baseline geoscience data in support of the land-based transportation project in
the Climate Change Geoscience Program. The present initiative is focused on addressing transportation risk in the Arctic to climatic sensitivity (TRACS) in the Great Slave region. In this report, air, near-surface, and active-layer temperature data
collected from 2012 to 2016 are presented. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 306454 |
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