Stone circles: Form and soil kinematics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2004, 2013, Pages

  Hallet, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Frost heaving; Pattern formation; Patterned ground; Permafrost; Sorted circles

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; PERMAFROST;

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FROST HEAVING; GEOMETRIC REGULARITY; GROUND TEMPERATURE; PATTERN FORMATION; PATTERNED GROUNDS; SORTED CIRCLES; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT;

SOILS;

SOIL;

BIOMECHANICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOTION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888113558     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0357     Document Type: Article

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