GROUNDWATER AND FROZEN GROUND IN THE SOUTHERN YAKUT COAL BASIN

• Main Author: Fotiev,S. M.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*HYDROLOGY; USSR); (*PERMAFROST; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ROCK; DEPOSITS; COAL; IRON; ORES(METAL SOURCES); SOILS; THICKNESS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; TERRAIN; DRAINAGE; EROSION; GROUND WATER; TECTONICS; TRANSLATIONS; *CRYOGEOLOGY; Stanovoy; Ice; Peat; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0711866; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0711866

Contents: Natural conditions of formation of groundwater and frozen ground relief: (Geological structure, tectonics, climate, hydrology, vegetation and soil); Frozen ground: (Temperature conditions of the rock and thickness of the frozen formations of the Chul'man plateau, sides of troughs and river valleys, variation in rock temperature after removal of the peat moss and snow cover, frozen rock of the Stanovoy ridge and the Zapadnyye Yangi ridge, lateral extent of the permafrost, cryogenic and postcryogenic formations); Early glaciation and the conditions of formation of permafrost, Groundwater: (Groundwater of the Chul'man Artesian basin, water in the anthropogenic deposits, groundwater of the Jurassic deposits, groundwater of the Cambrian deposits, the groundwater of the northern slopes of the Stanovoy ridge and the Zapadnyye Yangi ridge, special features of formation and discharge of groundwater of the Chul'man Artesian basin, conditions of formation of the chemical composition of the natural water. Trans. of mono. Podzemnye Vody i Merzlye Porody Yuzhno-Yakutskodo Uglenosnogo Basseina, Moscow, 1965 p5-229.