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Перевод: permafrost

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вечная мерзлота

Тезаурус:

1. Belching cows, paddy fields, melting permafrost, leaking natural gas pipelines - all can contribute to methane as greenhouse gas.
2. Cold predominates: the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30C, and in Siberia an astonishing -50C; and in summer, the ground may remain frozen solid ("permafrost") except for the top metre or so.
3. The region is characterized by permafrost, and smectite and kaolinite are the common authigenic clay minerals in the soils.
4. Curbs on ownership of water buffaloes and other ruminant emitters do not seem likely, nor would it be possible to cover up rice paddies and melting permafrost in the tundra.
5. Activities included geological survey and mapping, determining sea state conditions, monitoring water pollution, detecting plant diseases, census of game animals, survey and mapping projected or existing pipelines, and measuring Arctic permafrost.
6. Fulton lay on the permafrost, miming a cerebral haemorrhage.
7. It crosses two mountain ranges, 561 rivers, 124 km of permafrost and more than 1000 km of West Siberian bog and marsh on its journey through five time zones to Western Europe.
8. Mr. Manderfield told members of the East Anglian Outdoor Pig Club - sponsored by the Cotswold Pig Development Company and BOCM Pauls - that cold winters caused permafrost, resulting in wet, sticky surfaces over hard ground.
9. The co-discoverers, fossil hunters John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey, were inspired to explore the Kilimanjaro glacier by the success of Russian palaeontologists in retrieving whole frozen mammoths from the Siberian permafrost.
10. The labour camps, temperatures of 50 degrees below zero, a lifetime condemned to stare out over thousands of miles of the bleak, barren permafrost, where blindness eventually came as a minor blessing.
11. It was, for example, quite common in the last century for ivory objects to be carved from mammoth tusk that had been preserved in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra since the last Ice Age!
12. There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost, spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice.
13. In contrast, evaporite deposits or permafrost structures are not known from Upper Permian sequences in southern Africa.