Borehole «Lousy Point 216-86-505» (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 ridge, may be late glacial (>10Ka) or much older (early Wisconsinan)
Lithology 9 m of stratified silt and sand over 20 m massive ice, over icy sand
Morphology Top of hill or ridge. Local relief: 30m
Description
Slope 0°
Aspect 96.5°
Prior Records ../04/1986. Continuing annual. Three month logger record, 12 hour period.

Description

Adjacent CALM site C5, Part of a 7 kilometer permafrost geophysics test range NAME AND ... [more]

Measurement Method

Drilling

Drilling Method Coring Auger
Date Drilled 1986-04-01
Depth 30 m
Drilling Angle 90°
Diameter cm
Deepest Sensor 30 m

Accessibility

Type Helicopter or snowmobile. Winter road
Distance From Road 2000 m

Disturbance(s)

Disturbance
Distance m
Disturbance (Other) no disturbance
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: 69.21763°, -134.28497°
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How to cite this borehole

Mark Nixon, Margo Burgess, Sharon Smith: Permafrost Temperature (PT) at «Lousy Point 216-86-505» (Canada). Code: 216-86-505, GTN-P PID: pt/78.
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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 with glaciofluvial sediments, RichardsIsland, N.W.T., Canada Proceedings of theFifth International Conference on Permafrost, Trondheim, Norway
Rampton, V.N. and Walcott, R.I., 1974: Gravity profiles across ice-cored topography 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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