Freezing experiments on unsaturated sand, loam and silt loam

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 52, Issue 58, 2011, Pages 37-43

  Watanabe, Kunio ^a   Kito, Tetsuya ^a   Wake, Tomomi ^a   Sakai, Masaru ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND FREEZING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PERMAFROST; RETENTION; SAND; SILTY LOAM; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE; THAWING; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 80053581148     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756411797252220     Document Type: Article

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