The overlying terrestrial sediments consist of an ice complex composed of ice-rich wind-blown silt in which ice wedges have developed.
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Numerous baydzharakhs, thermokarst mounds, dot the landscape; they are the result of the melting of polygonal ice wedges within the permafrost.
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Polygons can form either in permafrost areas ( as ice wedges ) or in areas that are affected by seasonal frost.
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During the thaw season in the freeze-thaw cycle, water gets into the cracks and forms veins of ice called ice wedges.
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Malez carried out anatomical-morphological analyses and studies of geological stratigraphy dating, the appearance of ice wedges and the development of river terraces.
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Frost weathering, frost wedging, " ice wedging " or " cryofracturing " is the collective name for several processes where ice is present.
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The presence of ice belts, reticulated ice interlayers, and wide, round-shouldered ice wedges indicate that permafrost formed in these sediments as they accumulated.
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Periglaciation results in a variety of ground conditions but especially those involving irregular, mixed deposits created by ice wedges, solifluction, gelifluction, frost creep and rockfalls.
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Rich says that fossils found amid traces of permafrost and ice wedges in Australian soils show that some dinosaurs thrived in climates like that around Fairbanks, Alaska.
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In permafrost soils with an active upper layer subject to annual freeze and thaw, patterned ground can form, creating circles, nets, ice wedge polygons, steps, and stripes.
