Geologic map of the Fairbanks D-1 SW Quadrangle, Alaska
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R.A. Paige
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Frost heaving of piles with examples from Fairbanks, Alaska
Seasonal freezing of the ground is common throughout most of the world's land surface. As the ground freezes the surface of the ground may rise--this rising is termed frost heaving. Upward displacement of the ground upon freezing is not due alone to the freezing of water originally contained in the soil voids, but is due mostly to the formation of clear-ice segregations in the sediments. Ice segregations form as water is drawn to points of freezing from adjacent unfrozen ground; the basic physical phenomenon which permits the growth of such segregations is that some water in the ground remains liquid although subjected to temperatures below 0°C, and can therefore move to the growing ice segregations
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