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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.5194/tc-16-3507-2022
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Brief communication: Unravelling the composition and microstructure of a permafrost core using X-ray computed tomography
Autor Nitzbon, J.; Gadylyaev, D.; Schlüter, S.; Köhne, J.M.; Grosse, G.; Boike, J.
Quelle Cryosphere
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Department BOSYS
Band/Volume 16
Heft 9
Seite von 3507
Seite bis 3515
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6397474
Abstract The microstructure of permafrost ground contains clues to its formation and hence its preconditioning to future change. We applied X-ray computed microtomography (CT) to obtain high-resolution data (Δx=50µm) of the composition of a 164 cm long permafrost core drilled in a Yedoma upland in north-eastern Siberia. The CT analysis allowed the microstructures to be directly mapped and volumetric contents of excess ice, gas inclusions, and two distinct sediment types to be quantified. Using laboratory measurements of coarsely resolved core samples, we statistically estimated the composition of the sediment types and used it to indirectly quantify volumetric contents of pore ice, organic matter, and mineral material along the core. We conclude that CT is a promising method for obtaining physical properties of permafrost cores which opens novel research potentials.
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Nitzbon, J., Gadylyaev, D., Schlüter, S., Köhne, J.M., Grosse, G., Boike, J. (2022):
Brief communication: Unravelling the composition and microstructure of a permafrost core using X-ray computed tomography
Cryosphere 16 (9), 3507 - 3515 10.5194/tc-16-3507-2022