Two-storeyed frost-wedges in the vicinity of Yaroslavl, U.S.S.R.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1981/28/9Keywords:
thermal contraction, strefa aktywna, Volga River valleyAbstract
Structures of thermal contraction occurred in the Norsk Quarry near Yaroslavl on the right bank of the Volga are discussed. An evident two-storeyed pattern of wedge structures is connecied to vigorous activity of freeze and thaw processes in the active zone of permafrost.
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