Data on the principles of the study of frozen zones in the earth's crust. Issue III

• Main Author: National Research Council Of Canada. Division Of Building Research
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: National Research Council of Canada 1963
• Subjects: permafrost; soils; ice; soil investigation; pergélisol; sol; glace; reconnaissance du sol; Ice; wedge*; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4224/20375718; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=dc685721-2fd1-482f-95b8-71f528b7e3ba

This is the third volume of a U.S.S.R. produced series on permafrost. Papers include: "The correlation between theory and practice in the development of geocryology", " Principles of dividing the permafrost zone", "The freezing of soils", "The effect of vegetation on perenially frozen soil", "Soil wedges and their origin", "On the chemical composition of deep-seated ground water in central Yakutia", "Some geomorphological terms in geocryology", " Determination of foundation pressure on a thawing bearing medium", Tangential stresses produced on the lateral surface of foundations by the adhesion of thawing soil", "The derivation of the basic equation for heat conductivity of freezing and thawing soil", "The calorimetric method of determining the quantity of unfrozen water in frozen soil", and "Permafrost studies outside the USSR until 1955".