ADAPT Project data
Ward Hunt Island
Measurement site
Latitude
83.05381
Longitude
-74.09365
Altitude (m)
Site location
Natural environement site. Beach ridge complex facing north: 5 m to SILA tower, gentle slope, 5 cm organic, roots to 25 cm. Active layer: 61 cm.
Site description
Subsite: WH1 / Surficial geology: Beach gravel, pepples, fines, up to 10 cm. Tan to grey. / Discontinuous sax, patches of white lichen, occasional poppies, black moss.
Subsite: WH2 / Surficial geology: Slope deposits (colluvium and alluvium), solufluxion slope. / Black cryptogamic crust, sax, some poppy.