The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains
Abstract Permafrost‐indicator features, such as rock glaciers, pingos and ice‐wedge polygons, exist at many locations in and around the South Chuyskiy Range of the Russian Altai Mountains (∼50°N). The distribution of these features suggests that the altitudinal range of the sporadic/patchy permafros...
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crwiley:10.1002/ppp.585 2024-09-15T18:11:28+00:00 The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains Fukui, Kotaro Fujii, Yoshiyuki Mikhailov, Nikolai Ostanin, Oleg Iwahana, Go 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.585 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.585 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.585 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Permafrost and Periglacial Processes volume 18, issue 2, page 129-136 ISSN 1045-6740 1099-1530 journal-article 2007 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.585 2024-07-25T04:23:33Z Abstract Permafrost‐indicator features, such as rock glaciers, pingos and ice‐wedge polygons, exist at many locations in and around the South Chuyskiy Range of the Russian Altai Mountains (∼50°N). The distribution of these features suggests that the altitudinal range of the sporadic/patchy permafrost zones and the widespread discontinuous/continuous permafrost zones are 1800–2000 m ASL and above 2000 m ASL, respectively. The lower limit of discontinuous permafrost is approximately 200 m lower than in the Mongolian Altai, which are at a similar latitude. Cold air drainage and/or temperature inversions during winter within U‐shaped valleys together with a thin snow cover because of low precipitation during the same season likely cause the lower permafrost limit in the study area. The calibrated 14 C ages of tree remnants found in a rock glacier front in the lower Akkol valley were 293 ± 21 years BP and 548 ± 21 years BP. Given the time of emergence from beneath the Sofiyskiy glacier, this rock glacier developed between 3800–2600 and 550 years BP. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost Permafrost and Periglacial Processes wedge* Wiley Online Library Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 18 2 129 136 |
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Abstract Permafrost‐indicator features, such as rock glaciers, pingos and ice‐wedge polygons, exist at many locations in and around the South Chuyskiy Range of the Russian Altai Mountains (∼50°N). The distribution of these features suggests that the altitudinal range of the sporadic/patchy permafrost zones and the widespread discontinuous/continuous permafrost zones are 1800–2000 m ASL and above 2000 m ASL, respectively. The lower limit of discontinuous permafrost is approximately 200 m lower than in the Mongolian Altai, which are at a similar latitude. Cold air drainage and/or temperature inversions during winter within U‐shaped valleys together with a thin snow cover because of low precipitation during the same season likely cause the lower permafrost limit in the study area. The calibrated 14 C ages of tree remnants found in a rock glacier front in the lower Akkol valley were 293 ± 21 years BP and 548 ± 21 years BP. Given the time of emergence from beneath the Sofiyskiy glacier, this rock glacier developed between 3800–2600 and 550 years BP. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains |
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The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains |
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The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains |
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The lower limit of mountain permafrost in the Russian Altai Mountains |
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