congelifraction

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the weathering of material through the repeated freezing and thawing of water. uncountable
    — The rubble is produced by intense frost riving, or congelifraction (Bryan, 1946, p. 640), of the bedrock.

词源

Coined by Kirk Bryan in 1946 in "Cryopedology—the study of frozen ground and intensive frost action with suggestions on nomenclature" in the American Journal of Science, volume 244, pages 622–642.
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