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Permafrost and Antarctic Ice Caves
As you may or may not know, I’ve been up in the arctic the last couple of weeks to attend a UNIS course in arctic winter ecology. During a lecture on permafrost by geologist Hanne Christensen, we learned that the thickness of the permafrost layer was, among other things, determined by meteorological coldness from the [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2009 under trivia.
Tags: antarctic, arctic, geothermal, glacier, ice, permafrost, river, underground
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