RELICT PERMAFROST IN THE WEST SIBERIAN PLAIN

A report is given of the discovery, at a considerable depth in the West Siberian Plain, of a large massif of permafrost which has been preserved from the Ice Age. Trans. of mono. Lednikovyi Period na Territorii Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR i Sibiri (The Ice Age in the European Part of the USSR and in Sib...

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Main Author: Zemtsov,A. A.
Other Authors: DIRECTORATE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICES OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1968
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
*PERMAFROST
SIBERIA
GLACIERS
SURFACE PROPERTIES
CLIMATE
SOILS
FLOODS
DISTRIBUTION
STRATIGRAPHY
TERRAIN
USSR
CANADA
TRANSLATIONS
Canada
glacier*
Ice
permafrost
Siberia
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0677777
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Summary:A report is given of the discovery, at a considerable depth in the West Siberian Plain, of a large massif of permafrost which has been preserved from the Ice Age. Trans. of mono. Lednikovyi Period na Territorii Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR i Sibiri (The Ice Age in the European Part of the USSR and in Siberia), Moscow, 1959 p331-334, by E. R. Hope.

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