Relationship between ground ice and solifluction: Field measurements in the Daisetsu Mountains, northern Japan

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-89

  Matsumoto, Hotaka ^a   Yamada, Shuji ^b   Hirakawa, Kazuomi ^c  

^a Ibaraki Prefectural Kukizaki High School   (Japan)

^b OSAKA KYOIKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daisetsu mountains; Frost creep; Gelifluction; Ice lens; Solifluction; Strain probe

Indexed keywords

CREEP; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; FROST HEAVE; FROZEN GROUND; PATTERNED GROUND; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; PROBE; ROCK GLACIER; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLIFLUCTION; STRAIN;

DAISETSU MOUNTAINS; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 77149120784     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.675     Document Type: Article

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