Permafrost, Seasonally Frozen Ground, Snow Cover and Vegetation in the USSR

Abstract

A survey of the Cold Regions Science and Technology Bibliography and other references in the CRREL library was conducted to compile recent information about several Soviet physiogeographic features: permafrost, seasonally frozen ground, snow cover and vegetation. The products of the study are 19 a series of maps presenting the general distribution of these features over the entire Soviet Union and 2) a collection of 57 maps showing the local distribution of ground ice and permafrost.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA153628

Entities

People

  • S. R. Bigl

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Cold Regions
  • Drainage Basins
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Glaciers
  • Glaciology
  • Groundwater
  • Measurement
  • Regions
  • Ridges
  • Snow Cover
  • Terrain
  • Topography
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Polar and Arctic Studies