continuous permafrost
Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/ipaglossary/t0044
Within: IPA Permafrost Glossary
Definition: Permafrost occurring everywhere beneath the exposed land surface throughout a geographic region with the exception of widely scattered sites, such as newly deposited unconsolidated sediments, where the climate has just begun to impose its influence on the thermal regime of the ground, causing the development of continuous permafrost (see Figure 1).
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continuous permafrost
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For practical purposes, the existence of small taliks within continuous permafrost has to be recognized. The term, therefore, generally refers to areas where more than 90 percent of the ground surface is underlain by permafrost.
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https://doi.org/10.4224/20386561
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