Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's note
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on translations and definitions
- Abstract
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Thermal-physical, physico-chemical and mechanical processes in freezing, frozen and thawing ground and their manifestation in the permafrost regions
- 1 Thermal-physical processes in freezing and thawing ground
- 2 Water transfer and ice formation in soils
- 3 Physico-chemical and mechanical processes in freezing and thawing ground
- 4 Structure and texture of freezing and thawing soils
- 5 Cryogenic geological processes and phenomena
- II Composition, cryogenic structure and properties of frozen rocks
- III Principles of the formation and development of the frozen strata and layers of seasonal freezing and thawing
- IV Regional features and evolution of permafrost
- V Rational use of frozen ground and environmental protection in the course of economic development of the permafrost regions
- References
- Index
4 - Structure and texture of freezing and thawing soils
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's note
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on translations and definitions
- Abstract
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Thermal-physical, physico-chemical and mechanical processes in freezing, frozen and thawing ground and their manifestation in the permafrost regions
- 1 Thermal-physical processes in freezing and thawing ground
- 2 Water transfer and ice formation in soils
- 3 Physico-chemical and mechanical processes in freezing and thawing ground
- 4 Structure and texture of freezing and thawing soils
- 5 Cryogenic geological processes and phenomena
- II Composition, cryogenic structure and properties of frozen rocks
- III Principles of the formation and development of the frozen strata and layers of seasonal freezing and thawing
- IV Regional features and evolution of permafrost
- V Rational use of frozen ground and environmental protection in the course of economic development of the permafrost regions
- References
- Index
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- General Geocryology , pp. 157 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998