Borehole «Lousy 1-91GSC6» (at site «Mackenzie Delta», Canada) inactive

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Permafrost Setting

Permafrost Thickness m
Permafrost Zone Continuous

Environmental Setting

Vegetation Type Shrub Tundra
Vegetation Shrub Tundra
Hydrology
Landform Ice cored ice contact complex, may be late glacial (>10Ka) or much older (early Wisconsinan)
Lithology 4m of silty sand over 18m massive ice, over 7m icy sand over ice
Morphology Top of hill or ridge. Local relief: 22m
Description
Slope 2°
Aspect 69.8°
Prior Records ../04/1991, continuing annual. Several logger records less than year, 6 or 12 hour period.

Description

Part of a 7 kilometer permafrost geophysics test range. NAME AND LOCATION OF CLOSEST ... [more]

Measurement Method

Drilling

Drilling Method Shot hole, air rotary
Date Drilled 1991-01-01
Depth 30 m
Drilling Angle 90°
Diameter cm
Deepest Sensor 30 m

Accessibility

Type Helicopter or snowmobile. Winter Road
Distance From Road 8000 m

Disturbance(s)

Disturbance Edge of steep slope
Distance 10 m
Disturbance (Other)
Distance m

Contact(s)

Responsible Person
Mark Nixon ORCID
Geological Survey of Canada (GSV)
601 Booth St.,
Ontario, K1A 0E8 Ottawa
Canada

Location

Elevation: 30 m.a.s.l.
Latitude, Longitude: 69.24083°, -134.44083°
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How to cite this borehole

Mark Nixon, Margo Burgess, Sharon Smith: Permafrost Temperature (PT) at «Lousy 1-91GSC6» (Canada). Code: 91GSC6, GTN-P PID: pt/132.
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Related Publication(s)

Dallimore,S.R and Davis, J.L., 1992: Ground penetrating radar investigations of massive ground ice; in Ground penetration radar, ed. J. Pilon; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 90-4, p. 41-48.
Dallimore, S.R. and Wolfe, D.A.,1988: Massive ground ice associated withglaciofluvial sediments, RichardsIsland, N.W.T., Canada; in Proceedings of theFifthInternational Conference on Permafrost, Trondheim, Norway
Rampton, V.N. and Walcott, R.I.,1974: Gravity profiles across ice-coredtopography; Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v.11, p. 110-121.
Entry created: 2024-08-21 12:14, Entry last modified: 2026-05-15 11:44 – Time Zone: UTC/GMT -07:00
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