ice wedge उदाहरण वाक्य

The overlying terrestrial sediments consist of an ice complex composed of ice-rich wind-blown silt in which ice wedges have developed.
Numerous baydzharakhs, thermokarst mounds, dot the landscape; they are the result of the melting of polygonal ice wedges within the permafrost.
Polygons can form either in permafrost areas ( as ice wedges ) or in areas that are affected by seasonal frost.
During the thaw season in the freeze-thaw cycle, water gets into the cracks and forms veins of ice called ice wedges.
Malez carried out anatomical-morphological analyses and studies of geological stratigraphy dating, the appearance of ice wedges and the development of river terraces.

Frost weathering, frost wedging, " ice wedging " or " cryofracturing " is the collective name for several processes where ice is present.
The presence of ice belts, reticulated ice interlayers, and wide, round-shouldered ice wedges indicate that permafrost formed in these sediments as they accumulated.
Periglaciation results in a variety of ground conditions but especially those involving irregular, mixed deposits created by ice wedges, solifluction, gelifluction, frost creep and rockfalls.
Rich says that fossils found amid traces of permafrost and ice wedges in Australian soils show that some dinosaurs thrived in climates like that around Fairbanks, Alaska.
In permafrost soils with an active upper layer subject to annual freeze and thaw, patterned ground can form, creating circles, nets, ice wedge polygons, steps, and stripes.