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- In gelisols (permafrost soils), cryoturbation (frost churning) refers to the mixing of materials from various horizons of the soil down to the bedrock...
- the Latin gelare meaning "to freeze", a reference to the process of cryoturbation that occurs from the alternating thawing and freezing characteristic...
- of discontinuous permafrost, most conifers are able to grow easily. Cryoturbation is the dominant force operating in the active layer, and tends to make...
- either continuous or discontinuous permafrost, consequently affected by cryoturbation are common in high mountain plateaus of Tibet and the Andean altiplano...
- suggesting fluidity at some point in the past. The disturbance, a form of cryoturbation, often extends to a depth roughly equal to the hummock’s height. This...
- S. ice-free land). Gelisols: Soils with permafrost within 100 cm or cryoturbation (frost churning) within 100 cm plus permafrost within 200 cm; commonly...
- as ice wedges, patterned ground, pingos, rock glaciers, palsas, soil cryoturbation, and solifluction deposits developed in unglaciated extra-Andean Patagonia...
- rate of subsurface freezing by raising the temperature of the ice. Cryoturbation Frost law Frost weathering Ice jacking Palsa In the section II. Fl....
- ac****ulation of salts more soluble than gypsum—no restriction. @: Evidence of cryoturbation—no restriction. Numerical prefixes are used to denote lithic discontinuities...
- important factor in soil formation. Pedoturbation includes churning clays, cryoturbation, and bioturbation. Pedoturbation transforms soils through destratification...