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Publication Date
3-22-2022
Publication Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume Number
119
Issue Number
12
Abstract
Temperature increases in Arctic regions have focused attention on permafrost degradation on land, whereas little is known about the dynamics of extensive glacial-age permafrost bodies now submerged under the vast Arctic Continental shelves. Repeated high-resolution bathymetric surveys show that extraordinarily rapid morphologic changes are occurring at the edge of the continental slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea along what was once the seaward limit of relict Pleistocene permafrost. How widespread similar changes are on the Arctic shelves is unknown, as this is one of the first areas in the Arctic subjected to multiple multibeam bathymetric surveys. Rapid morphologic changes associated with active submarine permafrost thawing may be an important process in sculpturing the seafloor in other submarine permafrost settings.
Document Type
Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119105119
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Paull, Charles K.; Dallimore, Scott R.; Jin, Young Keun; Caress, David W.; Lundsten, Eve; Gwiazda, Roberto; Anderson, Krystle; Hughes Clarke, John; Youngblut, Scott; and Melling, Humfrey, "Rapid seafloor changes associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost" (2022). KIP Articles. 10681.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/10681
