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Author : Harris, S.A.
Date : 1979.
Title : Ice caves and permafrost zones in south-west Alberta
Publication : Erdkunde
Issue : 33:
Page(s) : 61-70



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Abstract

A form of permafrost that has previously been ignored except by karst specialists is that of the ice cave. This may be defined as a cave where the rock temperature is partly or wholly below 0 deg. C for more than one season. Such caves generally contain ice crystals in some form or another, and many examples may be found from Arizona to the Northwest Territories in the Rocky Mountains. This paper will examine the apparent distribution of these ice caves in southwestern Alberta, and their relationship to the lower limits of continuous and discontinuous permafrost further north

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