Permafrost Vocabularies

Permafrost Vocabularies

inactive rock glacier

Link: http://w3id.org/permafrost/v/ipaglossary/t0176

Within: IPA Permafrost Glossary

Definition: A mass of rock fragments and finer material, on a slope, that contains either an ice core or interstitial ice, and shows evidence of past, but not present, movement.

Term inactive rock glacier en
Comment Rock glaciers are said to be inactive when their main body ceases to move, and they show no evidence of very recent movement. en
dcterms:source https://doi.org/10.4224/20386561 xsd:anyURI

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