Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

rock glacier

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/illustrateddictionary/rockglacier

Within: An Illustrated Permafrost Dictionary

Definition: A thick, tongue-shaped mass of rock and finer material that contains ice within its core and moves slowly down a mountain slope.

Term rock glacier en
Comment Did you know? The distribution of moving rock glaciers has been used to help predict where permafrost is present in the Alps and the Andes. en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.52381/CPA.permafrostdictionary.1 xsd:anyURI

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