Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

cryoplanation

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/ipaglossary/t0057

Within: IPA Permafrost Glossary

Definition: The process through which cryoplanation terraces form.

Term cryoplanation en
Comment Cryoplanation occurs most frequently in periglacial areas of moderate aridity underlain by permafrost, under conditions of intense frost wedging associated with snowbanks. en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.4224/20386561 xsd:anyURI

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