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gelisol

[′jel·ə‚sȯl]
(geology)
frozen ground
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Gelisols are ideal for the determination of gains and losses in soil mass and volume (Munroe and Bockheim.
Characteristics and significance of the transition zone in drained thaw-lake basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
Gelisols are soils that are impacted by permafrost.
Entisol Development on Foreshore and Aeolian Dune Sediments in the Hudson Bay Lowlands near Churchill, Manitoba
Gelisols. International Committee on Permafrost-affected Soils Circumpolar Letter 5.
Formation, ecology, and geography of Cryosols of an ice-free oasis in Coastal East Antarctica near Casey Station (Wilkes Land)
The other orders are: Alfisols, Andisols, Aridisols, Entisols, Gelisols, Histosols, Inceptisols, Oxisols, Spodosols, Ultisols and Vertisols.
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This system too continues to evolve, with changes like the addition of a twelfth soil order, the Gelisols, in 1998.
Chapter 3: Soil classification and survey
* Histels are Gelisols with large amounts of organic carbon.
Chapter 3 Soil taxonomy and classification
Desses esforcos surgiram as classes dos Gelisols (Soil Survey Staff, 2010) e Cryosols (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2007).
Brazilian pedology in Antarctica: the permafrost-affected soils research in the global warming scenario/Pedologia Brasileira na Antartica: a pesquisa de solos afetados por permafrost no cenario do aquecimento global
It is of interest, however, that a pronounced vermiculitization of illite has been observed even in non-acidic arctic tundra Gelisols of Northern Alaska (Borden et al., 2010), although these soils formed in more moist conditions compared with the Cryosols of Yakutia.
Pedoweathering and mineralogical change in cryosols in an ultra-continental climate (Central Yakutia, Russia)
Scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS) examined the way in which permafrost soils, or Gelisols. thaw under a range of different climate scenarios.
Potential permafrost releases quantified
Gelisols are very cold soils with permanent frost within 100 centimeters of the soil surface.
Chapter 11: Soils
Gelisol. One of twelve soil orders, established in the soil taxonomy in 1998.
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Gelisol (Chapter 3)--One of the soil orders in the U.S.
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