Sinkholes as long as a skyscraper and as wide as a city street open up in the Arctic seafloor
Melting permafrost is causing parts of the seafloor to collapse.
By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science, March 16, 2022
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The open access paper is:
Paull, C.K., Dallimore, S.R., Jin, Y.K., Caress, D.W., Lundsten, E., Gwiazda, R., Anderson,
K., Hughes Clarke, J., Youngblut, S. and Melling, H., 2022. Rapid seafloor changes
associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, 119(12), p.e2119105119.
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www.pnas.org]
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