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permafrost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1943, coined in English by Russian-born U.S. geologist Siemon W. Muller (1900-1970) from perm(anent) frost.
Wiktionary
n. Permanently frozen ground, or a specific layer thereof.
WordNet
n. ground that is permanently frozen
Wikipedia
In geology, permafrost is ground, including rock or (cryotic) soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years. Most permafrost is located in high latitudes (in and around the Arctic and Antarctic regions), but alpine permafrost may exist at high altitudes in much lower latitudes. Ground ice is not always present, as may be in the case of nonporous bedrock, but it frequently occurs and it may be in amounts exceeding the potential hydraulic saturation of the ground material. Permafrost accounts for 0.022% of total water on earth and exists in 24% of exposed land in the Northern Hemisphere. It also occurs subsea on the continental shelves of the continents surrounding the Arctic Ocean, portions of which were exposed during the last glacial period.
A global temperature rise of above current levels would be enough to start the thawing of permafrost in Siberia, according to one group of scientists.
Permafrost may refer to:
- Permafrost, permanently frozen ground found in periglacial zones
- Permafrost, a character on the Static Shock television series
- Dr. Permafrost, a (nominal) villain of the comic series Tom Strong
- " Permafrost", a 1987 Hugo Award winning novelette by Roger Zelazny
- Permafrost (EverQuest), a zone in the fictional universe of EverQuest, a computer game
- Permafrost (newspaper), the student newspaper of the University of Alaska Fairbanks' English department
- Permafrost, a track from the album " Secondhand Daylight" by UK-based post-punk band Magazine
Permafrost is the third solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Considered by many as his greatest work, he further develops the icy drone style of previous works, making its climax in the title track. In 1996, the album was re-issued by Mille Plateaux along with his previous album, Teimo, on one disc.
"Permafrost" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Roger Zelazny. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1987, and was nominated for the Nebula Award.
Usage examples of "permafrost".
But more confusing were the changes in surface features wrought, in that frigid periglacial land, by permafrost.
Water began to pool as the thin layer of permeable soil above the level of the subterranean permafrost became saturated.
It was only a prolonged storm in Chrystianaville, but out in the countryside, a previously habitable strip of land was either being scorched barren by blasts of superheated air or turned into permafrost by sub-zero gales.
Sure, if you can guarantee us permafrost near the surface, maybe, just maybe, we could carry enough solar cells to set up airmakers and hydrolyze water to get oxygen.
They would creep irresistibly from the moist craters of the iceteroid impacts, proliferating relentlessly amid the storms and earthquakes of terraformation, surviving the floods as permafrost melted.
Beyond lay the crusted ridge of permafrost that had built up in the warring crosswinds of the Euston Road.
Even a small meteorite, like the one we found in Antarctica, would hit the ground with enough energy to liquefy the permafrost if the ice is only a meter or so beneath the surface.
A first-class cabin to themselves, day trips to resort centres, the eager buzz of third-class passengers on their way to a new life on homesteads springing up behind the retreating permafrost.
Mining the liquid aquifers directly, and also melting the permafrost with explosives, probably nuclear explosives, and then collecting the melt and pumping it onto the surface.
Vola-tiles from below had seeped up and cooled, and the water portion of the volatiles had pooled in liquid aquifers, and in many zones of highly saturated permafrost.
Nothing could be much more inappropriate than palm-tree symbols on a planet with sixty feet of permafrost, Bordman reflected.
The real barrier was the permafrost that lies beneath the surface of all large governments, no matter what name they go by: layer after frozen layer of official indifference to any project not close to home in some way, and not likely to pay off—.
From beneath the thawing permafrost of Siberia, billions of tonnes of methane and other greenhouse gases are already being released.
The pink-gold magess hoisted her skirts and tramped through the permafrost to his.
Jenny Dickens suggested that the methane was released from deposits of methane hydrates in permafrost and on the seabed.