Texture and structure of the Late Holocene ground ice in the Northern West Siberia

Ya. V. Tikhonravova; E. A. Slagoda; V. V. Rogov; E. I. Galeeva; V. V. Kurchatov

doi:10.15356/2076-6734-2017-4-553-564

Texture and structure of the Late Holocene ground ice in the Northern West Siberia

Ya. V. Tikhonravova, E. A. Slagoda, V. V. Rogov, E. I. Galeeva, V. V. Kurchatov

https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2017-4-553-564

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Abstract

The Late Holocene ground ices are occurred due to freeze cracking, slope, thermocast, thermoerosion pro‑ cesses. New formation ice within may intervene to the Pleistocene, lower Holocene ground ice and perma‑ frost and can really complicate their structure. Relationship between seasonal and perennial new formation of ice with massive ice and permafrost was studied in cross section of the North Western Siberia. The features of texture and structure of ice formed in the thawing cavities, some cracks were determined. The differences in structure of the late Holocene ground ices and ground ices of the early Holocene and late Pleistocene were defined. The differences in ground ice texture and structure depend to the cavity configuration of the freezing and cracks and freezing temperature conditions. The quantitative parameters of the crystal structure can be used to identify closed‑cavity ice and crack ice in the composition of massive ice and determine mechanisms and conditions of formation before the Holocene ice wedges.

Keywords

texture and structure of ice, petrographic method, ice veins, ice of thawing cavity, crack ice, ice of thermoerosional niche,

About the Authors

Ya. V. Tikhonravova

Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch, RAS.
Russian Federation
Tyumen.

E. A. Slagoda

Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch, RAS; Tyumen State University; Industrial University of Tyumen.
Russian Federation
Tyumen.

V. V. Rogov

Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch, RAS; Tyumen State University; Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Tyumen, Moscow.

E. I. Galeeva

Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch, RAS.
Russian Federation
Tyumen.

V. V. Kurchatov

Tyumen Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch, RAS.
Russian Federation
Tyumen.

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For citation: Tikhonravova Y.V., Slagoda E.A., Rogov V.V., Galeeva E.I., Kurchatov V.V. Texture and structure of the Late Holocene ground ice in the Northern West Siberia. Ice and Snow. 2017;57(4):553-564. https://doi.org/10.15356/2076-6734-2017-4-553-564

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