Regions: Sahtu Settlement Area
Tags: physical sciences, geology, environmental change, slope failure, frost heave, geological evolution
| Principal Investigator: | Kershaw, G. Peter (38) |
| Licence Number: | 12137 |
| Organization: | University of Alberta |
| Licensed Year(s): |
1992
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| Issued: | Jan 01, 1992 |
| Project Team: | Linda Kershaw, Monique McIlhargey, Jim McIlhargey, Curtis Kereliuk |
Objective(s): To determine the current status and contemporary characteristics of palsas and solifluction lobes, and their environments within this mountainous study area; to quantitatively describe the processes affecting the evolution of these periglacial features; to determine potential changes in the status of these and related forms under global change models.
Project Description: The researcher and his team will determine the current status and contemporary characteristics of palsas (frozen peat mounds), and their environments within this mountainous study area. As well, they will quanititatively describe the processes affecting the evolution of these periglacial features and the potential changes in the status of these and related forms under global change models.
