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Record #78739:
The permafrost environment / Stuart A. Harris.
Title: | The permafrost environment / Stuart A. Harris. |
Author(s): | Harris, Stuart A. |
Date: | 1986. |
Publisher: | London and Sydney: Croom Helm |
Abstract: | Describes permafrost environment and how it is formed. Discusses problems of construction in permafrost: foundations, roads and railways, airfields, oil and gas facilities, mining, water supply, waste disposal, provision of electricity, agriculture and forestry. |
Keywords: | 624.139 -- Engineering in frozen ground. 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground. E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 624.139 |
SPRI record no.: | 78739 |
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