Deep groundwater circulation through the High Arctic cryosphere forms Mars-like gullies

We report here the discovery of the northernmost known perennial spring, located in the polar desert of the Canadian High Arctic (average precipitation 75.5 mm/yr; average annual air temperature –19.7 °C). The high-discharge spring (~520 L/s) has also anomalously high temperatures (9.0 °C), despite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grasby, S., Proemse, Bernadette, Beauchamp, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Geological Society of America 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19775