Carbon-14 as a Tracer of Soil Movement in Earth Hummocks: A Case Study From Northwestern Arctic Canada

Involuted soil horizons and buried organic matter in the active layer and near-surface permafrost provide evidence that soil movement or cryoturbation is occurring within the active layer in hummocky terrain. Cryoturbation in the active layer of permafrost-affected soils could have significant impli...

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Main Author: Main, Brittany
Other Authors: Lacelle, Denis
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34581
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5742