Can-Peat Metadata Record
Title: Geochemistry of NW-BG_core8 peat core
Citation: Tarnocai, Charles (2018): Geochemistry of NW-BG_core8 peat core [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890206
Study Site: Northwest Territories
Purpose: Organic Cryosols (permafrost-affected organic soils) are common soils in Subarctic and Arctic Canada. These soils cover approximately 284 x103 km2, which is about 23% of the entire area of organic soils in Canada, and contain approximately 35 Gt of organic carbon. They are associated with perennially frozen peatlands such as peat plateaus, polygonal peat plateaus and low-centre and high-centre lowland polygons. In this paper carbon dynamics are given for Organic Cryosols associated with high-centre lowland polygons in the Low Arctic and polygonal peat plateaus in the Subarctic of the Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Abstract: Sediment/rock depth, age, dry bulk density, total carbon, organic carbon density of a peat core.
Supplemental Information Summary: Tarnocai, Charles (2018): Age determination of NW-BG_core8 peat core [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890220
Research: Past Global Changes - Carbon in Peat on Earth through Time (PAGES_C-PEAT)
Further Info:
Status: Complete
Keywords:
soil carbon,
peat properties,
bog,
Geographical coordinates: North: 65.21, South: 65.21 East: -127.01 West: -127.01
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2008-01-01, End
Date: 2008-12-31
