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Permafrost and related engineering problems

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Subjectpermafrost; soils; cold regions; civil engineering; properties of soils
Abstract
Roughly one-fifth of the world's land area is subject to permafrost, that is, perennially frozen ground. It is particularly important in the Soviet Union and in Canada, each of which has roughly half of its territory affected. Permafrost not only poses questions of great geophysical interest but presents the civil engineer with many exceedingly difficult problems. This article reviews the principles governing the distribution of permafrost and some of the ways of overcoming the difficulties.
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  • Endeavour 23, no. 89 (May 1964): 66–72.
LanguageEnglish
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IdentifierDBR-TP-173
NRC numberNRCC 7860
NRC-IRC-774
NPARC number20338300
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