beaded drainage pattern

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• beaded drainage pattern —    (not recommended)    use beaded stream pattern …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• thermokarst drainage pattern —    Drainage patterns that form polygonal and hexagonal shapes with streams that may connect rounded depressions, exhibiting a beaded appearance; developed in poorly drained, fine grained sediments and in organic materials in regions of permafrost …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• permafrost — /perr meuh frawst , frost /, n. (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil. Also called pergelisol. [1943; PERMA(NENT) + FROST] * * * Perennially frozen earth, with a temperature below 32 °F (0 °C) continuously for two years or… …   Universalium

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