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    Permafrost (from perma- 'permanent' and frost) is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for two years or more: the...
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    Permafrost Kingdom (Russian: Ца́рство ве́чной мерзлоты́) is a tourist complex in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. Established in 2005, the complex is located...
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  • Look up permafrost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Permafrost is permanently frozen ground found in periglacial zones. Permafrost may also refer to:...
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    dioxide in the permafrost, making the tundra soil a carbon sink. As global warming heats the ecosystem and causes soil thawing, the permafrost carbon cycle...
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  • Beyond the Permafrost is the second full-length album by American metal band Skeletonwitch. The album blends thrash metal and influence from the NWOBHM...
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    diameter. They are typically conical in shape and grow and persist only in permafrost environments, such as the Arctic and subarctic. A pingo is a periglacial...
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    In environments containing permafrost, the active layer is the top layer of soil that thaws during the summer and freezes again during the autumn. In all...
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    Utsjoki (section Permafrost)
    the ground and the development of permafrost. Palsas are a typical permafrost feature in northern Finland. Permafrost formation in palsas is dictated by...
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    expeditions, the scientific investigation of permafrost began in Russia. Baer recorded the importance of permafrost research even before 1837 when observing...
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    The permafrost carbon cycle or Arctic carbon cycle is a sub-cycle of the larger global carbon cycle. Permafrost is defined as subsurface material that...
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    Palsa (redirect from Permafrost plateau)
    a typical phenomenon in the polar and subpolar zone of discontinuous permafrost. One of their characteristics is having steep slopes that rise above the...
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    antecedent organizations whose purpose was to understand frozen ground, permafrost, snow and ice as factors which were important in strategic northern areas...
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    snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus, there is a overlap with the hydrosphere. The cryosphere is an...
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    species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic...
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    slightly colder). Yakutsk is also the largest city located in continuous permafrost; the only other large city is Norilsk, also in Siberia. Yakutsk is located...
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  • Permafrost is the farthest north literary journal in the United States. Based out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Permafrost publishes poetry,...
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    5 °C indicates areas with occurrences of widespread mountain permafrost. Thus, permafrost existis in large parts of Jotunheimen due its more continental...
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  • Static Shock is an American superhero animated television series based on the Milestone Media/DC Comics superhero Static. It premiered on September 23...
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  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on permafrost and periglacial geomorphology. It...
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    accelerating melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the thawing of the permafrost landscape.: 2321  These ongoing transformations are expected to be irreversible...
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    had near-surface permafrost, or an active permafrost layer, in the 1950s. In the 2000s, around 50% of Denali had near-surface permafrost. It is suspected...
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    Batagaika crater (category Permafrost)
    crater is a thermokarst depression in the Chersky Range area. The largest permafrost crater in the world, it administratively belongs to the Sakha Republic...
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    winter. Higher up, widespread permafrost may be expected at altitudes with a MAAT of −3.5 °C (25.5 °F), continuous permafrost at altitudes with a MAAT of...
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  • Permafrost is the third solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Considered by many[who?] as his greatest work, he further develops...
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    Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (Russian: Институт мерзлотоведения имени П. И. Мельникова СО РАН)...
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    the warm periods. Permafrost is ground that is permanently frozen, which most of the land in the Arctic is. Monitoring of permafrost in Svalbard is an...
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    Talik (category Permafrost)
    layer of year-round unfrozen ground that lies in permafrost areas. In regions of continuous permafrost, taliks often occur underneath shallow thermokarst...
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    Thermokarst (category Permafrost)
    irregular surfaces of marshy hollows and small hummocks formed when ice-rich permafrost thaws. The land surface type occurs in Arctic areas, and on a smaller...
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    ecosystem to disappear and for raising awareness as to the important roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle. According to a...
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    viable specimen was found in a 30,000-year-old ice core harvested from permafrost in Siberia, Russia. Alphavirus is one of the two genera in the family...
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