Sentence examples for ice wedge from inspiring English sources

Ice wedge polygons are important topographical and hydrological features in otherwise low relief coastal arctic tundra1.

The site distribution coincides broadly with that already known for ice wedge pseudomorphs.

Results from sedimentary analysis resemble morphological and geochemical (oxygen and hydrogen isotopes) results from ice wedge studies, in which successive generations of ice-wedge polygonal networks record warmer winters in late Holocene time.

Thermokarst landforms include thawing ice wedge networks5,6, degrading peat plateaus7 and palsas8,9, and on slopes, active layer detachments10,11 and retrogressive thaw slumps (RTS 12.

Ice wedge development begins at the ground surface as frost cracks and forms a polygonal pattern in the top soil as ice wedges enlarge over time2.

Upturning of strata adjacent to the ice wedge may make a ridge of ground on the surface on each side of the wedge, thus enclosing the polygons.

Ice wedges may be classified as active, inactive, and ice-wedge casts.

These conditions are indicated by ice-wedge casts and large-scale patterned ground, which are relict forms of ice wedges and tundra polygons that form today only in areas with continuous permafrost.

A gradation between active ice wedges and inactive ice wedges occurs in those wedges that crack rarely.

Inactive ice wedges are those that are no longer growing.

Active ice wedges are those that are actively growing.