Thermocirque on the Yamal Peninsula

Specific form due to thawing of tabular ground ice impaled with ice wedges. Such thermocirques are widely distributed in tundra of central Yamal Peninsula. Climate warming in this region since 2012 caused their increased activity.

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Artem Khomutov (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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