Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.
Wiktionary
- n. geology Soil creep caused by waterlogged soil slowly moving downhill on top of an impermeable layer.
Etymologies
- Latin solum, soil + Latin flūctiō, flūctiōn-, a flowing (from flūctus, past participle of fluere, to flow). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Extensive periglacial phenomena, such as solifluction fields, are still active at higher elevations.”
“Thawing of permafrost soils can result in subsidence of the surface, thermokarst, and activation of freeze – thaw related processes such as solifluction.”
“The flora of the area is a low-arctic type, typical of the nutrient-poor silicaceous soil which, where humid, shows solifluction effects such as frost boils.”
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