Earth’s Cryosphere, 2018, Vol. XXII, No. 1, p. 82-87
UNDERGROUND GLACIATION OF EURASIA: MACROSTRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT
V.I. Solomatin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; vi.solomatin@mail.ru
The paper analyzes the most important events of the of underground glaciation development and distribution, comprising the processes of its formation and spatial-temporal changes. The author has provided definition of cryolithogenic formations and formulated a new concept of the macrostructure of syncryogenic ice formation zone. A permafrost-facial analysis of the Ice Complex has revealed the mechanism for replacement and redeposition of the enclosing deposits by the growing syngenetic ice wedges. The principle of the similarity of geographical space and paleogeographic time is formulated.
The space-time structure of underground glaciation, paleogeography, cryolithogenic formations, syngenetic ice wedges, sedimentogenesis, Ice Complex, the similarity principle