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Observations on the redistribution of moisture in the active layer and permafrost / S.A. Harris.

Title: Observations on the redistribution of moisture in the active layer and permafrost / S.A. Harris.
Author(s): Harris, S. A.
Date: 1988.
Publisher: Trondheim: Tapir Publishers
In: Permafrost. Fifth International Conference. August 2-5, 1988. Proceedings. (1988.), Vol. 1.
Abstract: Summarizes series of observations on total moisture content with depth in several areas of Canadian Cordillera, made since 1980. Indicates that there is characteristic concentration of moisture in top layers of permafrost table. Consists of both segregated and pore ice. Distinctive movements of moisture take place as temperature changes, towards direction of lowest temperature.
Notes:

In: Permafrost. Fifth International Conference. August 2-5, 1988. Proceedings. Vol. 1. / Kaare Senneset, ed.

Keywords: 551.343.7 -- Frost, soil moisture and surface water, effect on movement of.
E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost.
SPRI record no.: 94148

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