Pingos

Word PINGOS
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Pingos"

What do we mean by pingos?

A conical mound of earth with an ice core caused by permafrost uplift, particularly if lasting more than a year.

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The word "pingos" in example sentences

The adventure would be exciting for the intended audience of eight to eleven year olds and they would also learn about the geography of the tundra, pingos, travel in the area, and the local language ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bit. fall é um projecto artístico criado por Julius Popp onde este usa pingos de àgua controlados para criar uma cascata de palavras e imagens. ❋ Red (2008)

Margaret's very amusingly-titled picture of pingos. ❋ Alice (2009)

Steppe vegetation on south-facing slopes of pingos, central arctic coastalplain Alaska, USA. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the only shelf to have a large number of underwater pingos. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The similarity of the underwater pingos to their terrestrial counterpart indicates they probably share the same origin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Since their first discovery, several hundred pingos have been found and it is likely that more have yet to be charted. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The submarine pingos on the Beaufort Shelf average 400 meters in diameter and are about 30 meters high! ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tundra was scored with weird geometric shapes — centuries-old ice wedges, ice-filled earthen mounds called pingos, thermokarst lakes trapped atop permafrost craters. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He spoke of pore ice, segregated ice, and pingos, and reminded Rod that at one point, Burlington and its environs had been glacial. ❋ Jodi Picoult (2003)

As the freezing water expanded, mounds and hills of muddy ice-pingos -- rose up out of swampy lowlands reaching heights up to two hundred feet and diameters of several hundred. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

Except for the largest of them, the deluge of glacial runoff could change the course of a river from one season to the next as easily as the ice hill pingos of winter melted into the bogs of summer. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1985)

This is the toughest and most pliable of all the palm-woods, and is principally used by the natives in making "pingos." ❋ Samuel White Baker (1857)

So you know, any museum is good in this weather, or you can go to Tuktoyaktuk, where you can see pingos in Northern Canada. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Springs, residual icings, pingos, and massive ground-ice deposits located in the Arctic (and Antarctic) provide opportunities to study microbial ecosystems in extreme polar environments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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