Gelifluction within a solifluction lobe in the Kärkevagge valley, Swedish Lapland

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 261-266

  Matsumoto, Hotaka ^a   Ishikawa, Mamoru ^b  

^a Ibaraki Prefectural Ishige High Sch   (Japan)

^b Frontier Observational Res Syst Glo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gelifluction; Ice lens; K rkevagge; Strain probe

Indexed keywords

FROZEN GROUND; PERMAFROST; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOLIFLUCTION; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

KARKEVAGGE VALLEY; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036971799     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0435-3676.2002.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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