Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences by Subject "Permafrost"
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Diavik Waste Rock Project: Geochemical and mineralogical investigations of waste-rock weathering
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-05)The oxidation of sulfide minerals in mine waste rock has the potential to generate acidity and contribute sulfate, metals and other trace constituents to drainage. The rate and extent to which this process occurs are ... -
Geochemical Characterization of Groundwaters, Surface Waters and Water-Rock Interaction in an Area of Continuous Permafrost Adjacent to the Greenland Ice Sheet, Kangerlussuaq, Southwest Greenland
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Continental scale glaciations, such as those that covered much of Canada and Northern Europe during the last glacial maximum (26,000 to 19,000 y BP), can be expected to cause large disturbances to both the surficial and ...