thermokarst
31termocarst — TERMOCÁRST, termocarsturi, s.n. Fenomen care dă naştere la forme de relief negative prin topirea zăpezii în zonele îngheţului veşnic. – Termo + carst. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98 termocárst s. n., pl. termocársturi Trimis… …
32Permafrost — This article is about frozen ground. For other uses, see Permafrost (disambiguation). In geology, permafrost, cryotic soil or permafrost soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water (0 °C or 32 °F) for two or more years. Ice is not always …
33Kobuk River — The Kobuk River is approximately convert|280|mi|km|0|lk=on long, located in the Arctic region of northwestern Alaska in the United States. [USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO… …
34Great Lyakhovsky Island — Infobox Islands name = Great Lyakhovsky image caption = Map showing the location of Lyakhovsky Islands image size = locator Location map|Russia|lat=73.4|long=141.5 map custom = yes native name = Большой Ляховский native name link = Russian… …
35Periglacial — is an adjective referring to places in the edges of glacial areas, normally those related to past ice ages rather than those in the modern era. That is to say, at the time in question, the area was not buried by flowing ice but was subject to… …
36Cryoturbation — Asphalt damaged by cryoturbation, or freezing of groundwater In gelisols (permafrost soils), cryoturbation (frost churning) refers to the mixing of materials from various horizons of the soil right down to the bedrock due to freezing and thawing …
37Glaciokarst — and displays major landforms of glacial influence. For this reason karstification can be pre and/or post Pleistocene, this is not easy to classifiy. Mostly Glaciokarst has not such distinctly karst landforms.Good examples of glaciokarst… …
38Nivation — is a collective name for the different processes that occur under a snow patch. The primary processes are mass wasting and the freeze and thaw cycle,[1] in which fallen snow gets compacted into firn or névé. The term glacier is applied only when… …
39Semyonovsky Island — ( о. Семёновский in Russian) was an island in the southwest part of the New Siberian Islands in the eastern part of the Laptev Sea. Before its destruction, it was at 4 sq. km, one of the smallest islands in the archipelago. In 1945, just before… …
40Shelonsky Islands — The Shelonsky Islands ( ru. Шелонские острова, Shelonskiye Ostrova) is an island group in the Laptev Sea. It is located in the coastal lowlands of the Yana Bay, east of the mouths of the Yana river. The Shelonsky Islands are marshy and flat. *The …
