permafrost in English
The permafrost below the topsoil is frozen all year around, and this prevents roots from penetrating deeply into the ground.
Use "permafrost" in a sentence
1. These trees put their roots down in the permafrost, and the permafrost is thawing.
2. We have thawed permafrost.
3. Warmer climate accelerates complete permafrost thaw and enhances seasonal flow within the supra-permafrost layer.
4. The permafrost is thawing now.
5. As permafrost gets warmer, it could become wetlands.
6. Permafrost line runs right through middle, I think.
7. Florence in permafrost Cold pinches the hills around Florence.
8. Water extraction from permafrost by distillation seems rather straight forward.
9. This permafrost is a defining characteristic of the tundra Biome.
10. What is permafrost, and how does it affect plants?
11. At these dates, the sites were buried with silt, probably as a result of mass wasting on nearby permafrost mounds and then permafrost aggraded under the sites.
12. Water could be extracted by distilling or melting blocks of permafrost.
13. However, post-aggradational water penetrated into the permafrost of the lithalsa.
14. Management of forests, transportation, the oceans, the melting of the permafrost.
15. Method for monitoring the position of above-ground pipelines in permafrost conditions
16. Permafrost aggradation commenced in the lake bottom during the first winter following drainage.
17. New understanding of permafrost melt could soon alter global - climate models.
18. An example of a tipping point is the thawing of the permafrost.
19. The ice grew beneath a frozen diamicton during the downward aggradation of permafrost.
20. And what they found, by doing research into the permafrost, was this bacteria.
21. Very important to know, because suppose you got permafrost under your concrete slab?
22. The Circumpolar region comprises arctic areas and southern expanses of permafrost around the globe
23. Solute enrichment of near-surface permafrost is greatest at fine-grained ice-rich alluvial sites, where mean concentrations in permafrost are up to 7.5 times greater than those in the active layer.
24. The thin layer of moss and lichens on the surface serves to insulate the permafrost.
25. Around one - fifth of the world's land area lies within the permafrost zone.
26. Thrawing frozen ground is the key to alluvial gold mining in Permafrost horizon.
27. From 1987 to 1990, observations and logged data clearly show aggradation and cooling of the permafrost.
28. Very cold ice is very hard, and very cold permafrost is extraordinarily tough to cut through.
29. Vladimir Romanovsky permafrost expert also at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, says the study is worrying.
30. These landforms are not fossil permafrost bodies; they are presently evolving under aggrading and degrading developmental stages.
31. Permafrost encapsulation of the tailings would be used to control acid mine drainage and metal leaching.
32. Incidentally, the pipeline carrying me there is above the tundra to prevent thawing of the permafrost.
33. Scan-image analysis allowed the interpretation of the ice lenses and soil cryostructures resulting from permafrost aggradation.
34. The PAGE21 team then focused on including additional permafrost related processes in to global land-surface models.
35. How may permafrost and its active layer be used to illustrate what developed with some Hebrew Christians?
36. • An increase in snow cover and/or a rise in air temperatures will increase the decay of permafrost.
37. The specific site of growth is usually in a small residual pond where permafrost aggradation is retarded.
38. Depth of permafrost and availability of moisture both affect the distribution of plants in the northern Yukon.
39. Vast amounts of methane are locked up inside ice-like frozen Clathrates in permafrost and the ocean depths.
40. Decreased sea ice and changes in permafrost can affect transportation and the accessibility of certain communities in Nunavut.
41. Plants that grow in the thin top layer are often small or stunted; their roots cannot penetrate the permafrost.
42. At the same time, the ground adjacent to the underlying permafrost begins to freeze, forcing excess water upward.
43. Cold, continental environments characterized by rapid sedimentation and permafrost aggradation appear most conducive for formation of syngenetic fissures.
44. However, this thin layer of thawed soil is usually muddy because moisture cannot drain into the permafrost below.
45. Scientists are worried about the massive Craters appearing in the permafrost on a remote peninsula in the Arctic Circle
46. The permafrost surrounding the facility will help maintain the low temperature of the seeds if the electricity supply fails.
47. In addition, the enormous heat of the explosion melted the permafrost in the Taiga and created several small lakes.
48. The region is characterized by permafrost, and smectite and kaolinite are the common authigenic clay minerals in the soils.
49. The Lander is equipped with highly advanced instruments to analyze both the atmosphere and the permafrost at the polar region.
50. Lenses of rather pure ice are conceivable, but more likely is a permafrost containing 10 percent to 30 percent ice.