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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-283-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-283-2021
Research article
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20 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 20 Jan 2021

Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard

Rowan Romeyn, Alfred Hanssen, Bent Ole Ruud, Helene Meling Stemland, and Tor Arne Johansen

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A series of unusual ground motion signatures were identified in geophone recordings at a frost polygon site in Adventdalen on Svalbard. By analysing where the ground motion originated in time and space, we are able to classify them as cryoseisms, also known as frost quakes, a ground-cracking phenomenon that occurs as a result of freezing processes. The waves travelling through the ground produced by these frost quakes also allow us to measure the structure of the permafrost in the near surface.
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