Borehole «Involuted Hill IH88-1» (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 collapsing mesa, may be postglacial (10Ka) or much older (early Wisconsinan)
Lithology Veneer of till over 22 m massive ice, over icy sand
Morphology Top of hill or ridge
Description
Slope 0°
Aspect 23.4°
Prior Records ../10/1988. continuing up to three times per year. Some logger records up to y ear long, 12 hour period.

Description

Adjacent active layer monitoring site, Involuted Hill is a Sientific Reserve under ... [more]

Measurement Method

Drilling

Drilling Method Coring Auger
Date Drilled 1988-01-01
Depth 35 m
Drilling Angle 90°
Diameter cm
Deepest Sensor 29 m

Accessibility

Type Helicopter or snowmobile
Distance From Road 16000 m

Disturbance(s)

Disturbance Anthropogenic: destruction of vegetation within 1 meter of casing by fuel oil, subsequent ... [more]
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: 32 m.a.s.l.
Latitude, Longitude: 69.4736°, -132.62855°
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How to cite this borehole

Mark Nixon, Margo Burgess, Sharon Smith: Permafrost Temperature (PT) at «Involuted Hill IH88-1» (Canada). Code: IH88-1, GTN-P PID: pt/77.
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Related Publication(s)

Dallimore, S.R., Nixon, F.M., Egginton, P.A. and Bisson, J.G.,1996: Deep-seated creep of massive ground ice, Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, vol. 7. p. 337-347.
Dallimore, S.R. Egginton, P.A., Nixon, F.M. , Ladanyi, B. and Foriero A., 1995: Creep deformation of massive ground ice, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, N.W.T.; in Proceedings of the 48th Canadian Geotechnical Conference Vol. 2 , September 1995, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, pp. 1015-1022.
Foriero,A.; Ladanyi,B.; Dallimore,S.R.; Egginton,P.A.; and Nixon,F.M., 1998: Modelling of deep seated hill slope creep in permafrost; Canadian Geotechnica Journal, vol. 35, n. 4, p. 560-578.
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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