Open AccessPingos in Peary Land, North Greenland
Author(s) -
Ole Bennike
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1983-32-05
Subject(s) - geology , physical geography , distribution (mathematics) , oceanography , geography , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Pingos have previously been recorded from East and West Greenland, but not from North Greenland. Two finds in Peary Land therefore extend their distribution far northwards. The pingos were collapsed, they have presumably been of the open-system type, because they are situated in the bottom of valleys. It is concluded that pingos occur very rarely in northernmost Canada and Greenland