Frost Heaving and Surface Clast Movement in Turf-banked Terraces, Eastern Glacier National Park, Montana

• Main Author: Sawyer, Carol Frances
• Other Authors: Butler, David R., Dixon, Richard W., Fonstad, Mark A., Marston, Richard A.
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Geomorphology; Geography; Patterned ground; Repeat photography; Glacier National Park; Frost heaving; Rocky Mountains; Physical and Environmental Geography; Arctic; Eastern Glacier; Climate change; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4295

Patterned ground consists of rocks, gravel, and soil, both sorted and unsorted, ordered on a landscape in the appearance of geometric shapes ranging from circles, polygons, nets, and stripes. Patterned ground occurs throughout the world in alpine, subarctic, and arctic regions. These places are incr...