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FREEZING FRONT
The advancing boundary between frozen and unfrozen soil, sediment or rock, which penetrates into these Earth materials from the surface. It should be distinguished from the cryofront, which is the 0°C boundary, and the thawing front, which is the boundary between seasonally frozen and seasonally thawed soil.
[See alsoactive layer, permafrost]
University of Ottawa
10.4135/9781446247501.n1560
, and (1988) Glossary of permafrost and related ground-ice terms. Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada.
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