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Permafrost is defined as a ground, or medium, (including rocks, soils and organic matter) with a mean annual temperature less than 0 °C for at least 2 consecutive years. The smooth appearance of the walls can be explained by understanding how permafrost works. Permafrost is characterized by an active layer, which is a layer normally at the surface which ...

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If we consider only the climatic impacts of Arctic coastal erosion, there are still two sides of the question of how relevant is Arctic coastal erosion of permafrost. The first side is how big is its current role as a ${CO}_2$ source, and the second is how much of risk it posses for future climate change. It term of current contribution the answers is that ...

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A frost-gley is a waterlogged permafrost soil. IOW, a gleysol that has undergone cryoturbation.

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According to "Permafrost, active-layer dynamics and periglacial environments of continental Antarctica" South African Journal of Science 98. pages 82-90: Only 25% of Antarctica has permafrost, as the material beneath thick ice sheets is not permafrost. The deepest permafrost occurs where there is no ice sheet. The deepest permafrost in the Antarctic is ...

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Schneider von Deimling et al. in Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming Biogeosciences, 9, 649–665, 2012 evaluated carbon dioxide and methane release under four senarios, the worst being RPC8.5. Under RPC8.5, they calculated release of carbon from permafrost through 2100 of 63 gigatons (Gt) as CO2 and 0.5Gt as methane. ...

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Permafrost is permanently frozen ground. However, most definition qualify it as permafrost if it remains frozen for at least two years. The speed at which a temperature change travels down the ground depends on the thermal conductivity, and it varies between soils. As a thumb rule, the temperature at 10 m depth is pretty much constant and equal to the mean ...

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A friend of mine works at the Permafrost institute in Moscow and he and his colleagues generally support this idea. I think that edges were formed by falling pieces of soil and vertical walls were formed when big methane bubble that went off the deeper layers.

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What caused a centuries long freeze, the beginning of the current ice age. Yes we are in an ice age, as long as greenland and antarctica have large ice sheets we are technically in an ice age) Which in turn was caused by the movement of continents close enough to the poles to create permanent ice caps. the freezing of organic matter into permafrost is not a ...

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SANDIA REPORT“The Arctic Coastal Erosion Problem”by Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2016-9762, September,2016 "One-third of the coastline in the world is Arctic permafrost [Lantuit et al., 2012]. Despite this sizeable proportion, a comprehensive understanding of erosion dynamics in the Arctic has not yet emerged. Unfortunately, the majority of present ...

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I resolved the following based on your input: $z = (T_s)(k/q)$ for the granite case, where $75 = (3)(k/0.04)$ where $k = 1$ so based on this site here, typical granite thermal conductivity is in the range of 1.7 to 4 $W/m K$. We could say your site is special with $k=1$ maybe local conditions.. Let's test the Esker gravel, where the aforementioned ...

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This is a non-exhaustive list of factors influencing the permafrost thickness : latitude altitude aspect material type nature of the regional climate (dry, oceans, continental) geologic history of the permafrost (formed after the last glacial maximum, or before?) Time is important: older permafrost can be very deep, especially in areas such as in Siberia, ...

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