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Record #157907:

Permafrost: a guide to frozen ground in transition / Neil Davis.

Title: Permafrost: a guide to frozen ground in transition / Neil Davis.
Author(s): Davis, Neil.
Date: 2001.
Publisher: Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska
Abstract: Well illustrated account of permafrost in all its aspects. Covers construction and types of freezing ground, land forms and influence of weathering, problems of living with permafrost and effect of climate change: includes mathematical data and glossary.
Keywords: 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground.
551.343 -- Periglacial processes. Thermokarst.
551.343.2 -- Cryoturbation and patterned ground.
551.343.72 -- Frost mounds. Pingos.
551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology.
551.583 -- Climatic changes.
624.139 -- Engineering in frozen ground.
E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost.
(*49) -- Alaska.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.345
ISBN: 1889963194
SPRI record no.: 157907

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