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Author : Francus,P.; and Bradley, R.S.
Date : 2005.
Title : An extreme sediment transfer event in a Canadian High Arctic stream.
Publication : Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
Issue : 37(4):
Page(s) : 477–482.



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Abstract

Two large suspended sediment concentration (SSC) pulses were recorded in 1998 in a small snowmelt-fed stream on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The largest pulse occurred from 7 to 8 July, when 32% of the monitored seasonal sediment transport occurred in only four hours. SSC reached 83,760 mg L-1, exceeding all previously recorded values from high arctic glacially-fed and snowmelt-fed rivers by more than one order of magnitude. The event occurred after the majority of snow in the watershed had melted, and was preceded by a long period of relatively high air temperature, and a small rainfall event on 7 July. We consider the most likely cause of the event to be a rapid mass movement.

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