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Frozen in Time - Permafrost and Engineering Problems (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Frozen in Time - Permafrost and Engineering Problems (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Frozen in Time: Permafrost and Engineering Problems is a previously
unpublished work by Siemon W. Muller (1900-1970), author of the
first English-language book about perennially frozen ground.
Professor Muller stopped working on the nearly completed manuscript
in the early 1960s, and for reasons unknown set it aside about the
time of the First International Conference on Permafrost in 1963.
It remained 'frozen' for several decades, until it was eventually
discovered in his files.Upon careful reading, the manuscript was
found to offer an advanced and unusually comprehensive treatment of
permafrost science and associated engineering problems. Editors
French and Nelson guided this landmark manuscript through the last
phase of revision, provided context through an interpretive
introduction, and finally brought it to the publication stage.
Intended as a comprehensive revision and update of the 1947 edition
of Muller's classic ""Permafrost or Permanently Frozen Ground and
Related Engineering Problems"", this book reads like a 'how-to'
manual for engineering personnel working in pioneering or primitive
circumstances.Like its predecessor, the book reviews the large
Russian-language body of literature devoted to permafrost, but also
covers work published in English during the intervening years. It
addresses topics such as basic scientific knowledge about
perennially frozen ground and the engineering problems associated
with it, the geography of permafrost, related elements of landscape
science and ecology, periglacial geomorphology, and the physics of
frozen ground. This book serves as a valuable historical document,
and will also be useful for those seeking basic knowledge about
permafrost and approximate methods for coping with associated
engineering problems.
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