cryogenesis
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cryogenesis (plural cryogeneses)
- The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
- The geologic processes that create permafrost.
- The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).
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[edit]References
[edit]- Pratap Singh, Umesh Kumar Haritashya, P. Pradeep Kumar (2011) Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers
- Soil cryogenesis is defined as a process dictating many important properties and regimes of permafrost affected soils. Soil cryogenesis is influenced by climatic parameters, the earth-atmosphere interactions, the properties of soils, the conditions of the permafrost.
- Soviet soil science, Volume 23, Issues 1-5, American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1991
- Cryogenesis controls soil formation in the permafrost zone..