Process Study of Sorted Patterns on Arctic Soils

• Main Authors: Hallet, Bernard, Waddington, Edwin
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE QUATERNARY RESEARCH CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Theoretical Mathematics; *ARCTIC REGIONS; BUOYANCY; CIRCLES; CIRCULATION; DEFORMATION; DETERMINANTS(MATHEMATICS); DYNAMICS; FIELD EQUIPMENT; FORCE(MECHANICS); FREEZING; FROST HEAVE; INSTRUMENTATION; LAYERS; LONG RANGE(TIME); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION; MOUNTAINS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PATTERNS; RECORDS; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SOILS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THAWING; *FROZEN SOILS; PATTERNED GROUND; PERMAFROST; SPITSBERGEN; SOIL MODELS; ARCTIC OCEAN ISLANDS; SELF ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; LPN-ARO-P-24376-GS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Stripe; Ice; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA234089; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA234089

Patterned ground is ubiquitous in Arctic and alpine areas. To improve understanding of this phenomenon, we developed extensive field instrumentation that has been recording principal soil properties over the past four years. The resulting data constitute the first quantitative year-round records of...