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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3507-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3507-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Brief communication
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02 Sep 2022
Brief communication |  | 02 Sep 2022

Brief communication: Unravelling the composition and microstructure of a permafrost core using X-ray computed tomography

Jan Nitzbon, Damir Gadylyaev, Steffen Schlüter, John Maximilian Köhne, Guido Grosse, and Julia Boike

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The microstructure of permafrost soils contains clues to its formation and its preconditioning to future change. We used X-ray computed tomography (CT) to measure the composition of a permafrost drill core from Siberia. By combining CT with laboratory measurements, we determined the the proportions of pore ice, excess ice, minerals, organic matter, and gas contained in the core at an unprecedented resolution. Our work demonstrates the potential of CT to study permafrost properties and processes.
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