Snow Patches and Snow Erosion in the Northern Part of the Urals

Snow erosion, or nivation, belongs among those geomorphological processes whose mechanism is still only partially known. At the same time snow erosion in the Quaternary period has a key significance in the formation of the relief. It accompanies glacial erosion, except that snow patches survive glac...

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Main Author: Boch,S. G.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1970
Subjects:
Soil Mechanics
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*SOILS
EROSION)
(*MOUNTAINS
*SNOW)
MELTING
FREEZING
SOILS
ROCK
MOTION
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
URAL MOUNTAINS
Ice
permafrost
ural mountains
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0715078
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Summary:Snow erosion, or nivation, belongs among those geomorphological processes whose mechanism is still only partially known. At the same time snow erosion in the Quaternary period has a key significance in the formation of the relief. It accompanies glacial erosion, except that snow patches survive glaciation and remain an effective geomorphological factor for a long time on areas long abandoned by the glaciers. On the territory of the USSR the 'snow patch landscape' currently occupies vast regions in the northern and high mountain zones. (Author) Trans. of Vsesoyuznoe Geograficheskoe Obshchestvo. Izvestiya (USSR) v78 n2 p207-222 1946.

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