Perennially Frozen Rocks of the Coastal Zone of Yakutia

• Main Author: Grigorev,N. F.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1976
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *COASTAL REGIONS; *PERMAFROST; USSR; DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; ROCK; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; FREEZING; MELTING; TRANSLATIONS; SHORES; SIBERIA; ARCTIC OCEAN; Yakutia(Siberia); *Frozen soils; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ice; permafrost; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA022486; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA022486

The monograph describes the conditions for formation, propagation, structure and temperature of perennially frozen ground in the coastal zone of Yakutia. Particular attention is devoted to the dynamics of permafrost processes in particular the formation of present day layers of perennially frozen ground in the coastal part of the floor of Arctic seas and also under lakes and rivers in Northern Yakutia. Draft trans. of mono. Mnogoletnemerzlye Porody Primorskoi Zony Yakutii, Moscow, 1966 178p.