gelifluction

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 245 words | Copyright

gelifluction (congelifluction) Flow of water-saturated sheets of rock debris over perennially frozen ground, and on slopes as low as 1°. It is the cold-climate variety of solifluction and occurs only in the active layer (to a depth of 3 m).

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