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gelisol

[′jel·ə‚sȯl]

(geology)

frozen ground

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Desses esforcos surgiram as classes dos Gelisols (Soil Survey Staff, 2010) e Cryosols (IUSS Working Group WRB, 2007).

Ornithogenic Gelisols (Cryosols) from Maritime Antarctica: pedogenesis, vegetation and carbon studies.

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.

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.

Potential permafrost releases quantified

Gelisols are very cold soils with permanent frost within 100 centimeters of the soil surface.

Chapter 11: Soils

The dominant suborders of Gelisols are Histels, Orthels, and Turbels (Table 3-5).

Chapter 3 Soil taxonomy and classification

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

The other orders are: Alfisols, Andisols, Aridisols, Entisols, Gelisols, Histosols, Inceptisols, Oxisols, Spodosols, Ultisols and Vertisols.

100 years old

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 are soils of cold regions typified by permafrost.

Glossary

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

In addition, for purposes of comparison, we used the FAO classification (FAO 1994), and the recently discussed new Gelisol order of the US Soil Taxonomy (ICOMPAS 1996), as well as the new World Reference Base for Soil Resources (Spaargaren 1994).

Formation, ecology, and geography of Cryosols of an ice-free oasis in Coastal East Antarctica near Casey Station (Wilkes Land)