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Surface forms in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

  • Steep

    Steep

    Steep mountains with ice caps and valley glaciers.

  • Inclined

    Inclined

    Inclined mountains with cryoplanation terraces.

  • Inclined

    Inclined

    Sloping valley with eroding ice-wedge polygons.

  • Undulating

    Undulating

    An Orthic Turbic Cryosol soil associated with an undulating landscape.

  • Level

    Level

    Degraded Eutric Brunisol associated with a level valley landscape.

  • Level

    Level

    Pingo in a coastal plain.

  • Level

    Level

    Esker on a morainal plain.

  • Peat Plateau Bog

    Peat Plateau Bog

    An elevated, ice‑rich peatland underlain by permafrost, standing above surrounding wetlands.

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