Hillslope and Drainage Basin Evolution in an Ice-Cored Landscape, Peel Plateau, Northwest Territories, Canada

Hillslope runoff from an ice-cored peat

Hillslope runoff from an ice-cored peat plateau in a discontinuous permafrost basin, Northwest Territories, Canada

✍ Nicole Wright; William L. Quinton; Masaki Hayashi 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 390 KB

## Abstract Peat plateaus are important landscape features of many high‐boreal, wetland‐dominated drainage basins. Raised up to 2 m above the surrounding landscape and underlain by permafrost, these forested peatlands provide meltwater drainage to the surrounding wetlands, and to basin runoff. Unde