Formation of ice lenses and frost heave

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Rempel, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; HEAVE; MORPHOLOGY; PERMAFROST; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548319367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000525     Document Type: Article

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