Actions Du Vent Et Du Froid Entre Le Yukon Et Anchorage, Alaska
- 8 August 1967
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography
- Vol. 49 (2-4) , 145-154
- https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.1967.11879745
Abstract
Observations on the influence of wind and frost action, made during the INQU A field trip in Alaska in 1965, are reported, discussed and compared with examples from other areas. Among the features discussed are: tor-like rocks, products of mechanical disintegration, nivation benches, V- or U-shaped gullies, solifluxion lobes, pingos, palsas, round or oval ponds, cave-in lakes, thermokarst mounds, thermosuffosion forms, thermo- dolines, thin cracks in frozen loess or sand, secondary deposits of CaCO3, MnO2 and Fe(OH)3.Keywords
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