Borehole «YaYa Lake/90SI1» (at site «Mackenzie Delta», Canada) inactive

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Permafrost Setting

Permafrost Thickness m
Permafrost Zone Discontinuous

Environmental Setting

Vegetation Type Shrub Tundra
Vegetation
Hydrology
Landform Ice cored ice contact ridge, may be late glacial (>10Ka) or much older (early Wisconsinan)
Lithology 4 m of sand and gravel over 9 m massive ice, over 4 m til
Morphology Top of hill or ridge. Local relief 20m
Description
Slope 0°
Aspect 103°
Prior Records ../07/1990, continuing semi annual. Logger records, 1990 to 1994, 12 hour period.

Description

Adjacent to thaw tube, inclinometer site. Surface and borehole geophysics. NAME AND ... [more]

Measurement Method

Drilling

Drilling Method Coring Auger
Date Drilled 1990-01-01
Depth 18 m
Drilling Angle 90°
Diameter cm
Deepest Sensor 16 m

Accessibility

Type Helicopter or snowmobile. Winter road
Distance From Road 10000 m

Disturbance(s)

Disturbance no disturbance
Distance 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: 69.14556°, -134.7125°
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How to cite this borehole

Mark Nixon, Margo Burgess, Sharon Smith: Permafrost Temperature (PT) at «YaYa Lake/90SI1» (Canada). Code: 90SI1, GTN-P PID: pt/164.
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Related Publication(s)

Dallimore, S.R and Davis, J.L.,1992: Ground penetrating radar investigations ofmassive ground ice; in Ground penetration radar, ed. J. Pilon; Geological Survey ofCanada, 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 theFifth International Conference on Permafrost, Trondheim, Norway.
Robinbson, S.D., Moorman, B.J., Judge, A.S. and Dallimore, S.R.,1993: Thecharacterization of massive ground ice at Yaya Lake, Northwest Territoriesusing radar stratigraphy techniques; in Current Research, Part B;Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 93-1B, p. 23-32.
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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