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Friggens, N.L.; Hugelius, G.; Kokelj, S.V.; Murton, J.B. ; Opel, T.; Phoenix, G.K.; Hartley, I.P.

Carbon and nitrogen content of permafrost soils from the North West Territories and Yukon, Canada, 2019-2020

https://doi.org/10.5285/54e9d93f-bacb-41e4-a66a-0cdcbdd02101 Cite this dataset
This dataset contains information on the carbon and nitrogen content of varying permafrost soil types and layers sampled from the North West Territories and Yukon, Canada in 2019 and 2020. Samples analysed include turbels, orthels and histels from drained lakes, non-lake (alluvial and till) and yedoma deposits including active layer and both organic and mineral permafrost (where appropriate).
Publication date: 2023-09-08

Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2019-01-01    to    2020-12-31

Provenance & quality

The soil samples were collected by digging soil pits, coring or horizontal drill holes into thaw slumps and recording the sampling location via GPS. Frozen soil samples were shipped to Exeter where they were defrosted, manually homogenised by mixing, subsampled and oven dried, then ground and weighed out for CN elemental analysis in June 2021. The elemental standard and check standard used was EDTA every ten samples.

Correspondence/contact details

Dr. Nina Lindstrom Friggens
University of Exeter
UNITED KINGDOM
 n.lindstrom-friggens@exeter.ac.uk

Authors

Friggens, N.L.
University of Exeter
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5536-6312
Hugelius, G.
Stockholm University
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8096-1594
Kokelj, S.V.
Northwest Territories Geological Survey
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2840-2605
Murton, J.B.
University of Sussex
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-5856
Opel, T.
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1315-8256
Phoenix, G.K.
University of Sheffield
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0911-8107
Hartley, I.P.
University of Exeter
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9183-6617

Other contacts

Rights holder
University of Exeter
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
Keywords
North West Territories , Permafrost , Soil , Soil carbon , Soil nutrients , yedoma , Yukon
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S010122/1
Last updated
01 March 2024 11:27

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CITE AS: Friggens, N.L.; Hugelius, G.; Kokelj, S.V.; Murton, J.B. ; Opel, T.; Phoenix, G.K.; Hartley, I.P. (2023). Carbon and nitrogen content of permafrost soils from the North West Territories and Yukon, Canada, 2019-2020. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/54e9d93f-bacb-41e4-a66a-0cdcbdd02101