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that signifi cant terrain damage occurred in the Yamal oil and gas fi elds throughout the
1980s and early 1990s.
Today, all aspects of resource exploration and development in permafrost regions are
closely regulated in order, among other things, to minimize thermokarst and environ-
mental damage. Further discussion of the geotechnical aspects of human settlement and
economic activity in periglacial environments is given in Chapter 14.
ADVANCED READING
Carson, C. E., Hussey, K. M. (1962). The oriented lakes of Arctic Alaska.
Journal
of
Geology
,
70
,
417- 439.
Czudek, T., Demek, J. (1970). Thermokarst in Siberia and its infl uence on the development of
lowland relief.
Quaternary
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1
, 103-120.
Murton J. B. (1996). Thermokarst-lake-basin sediments, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western arctic
Canada.
Sedimentology
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43
, 737-760.
Murton, J. B. (2001). Thermokarst sediments and structures, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western
Arctic Canada.
Global
and
Planetary
Change
,
28
, 175-192.
Romanovskii, N. N., Hubberten, H.-W., Gavrilov, A. V., Tumskoy, V. E., Tipenko, G. S., Grigoriev,
M. N. (2000). Thermokarst and land-ocean interactions, Laptev Sea region, Russia.
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,
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DISCUSSION TOPICS
1. What are the most common causes of thermokarst?
2. What happens when ice-rich permafrost degrades?
3. Discuss the origin of oriented thaw lakes.
4. Explain why thermokarst processes are some of the most important processes fashion-
ing certain periglacial landscapes.
