Earth’s Cryosphere, 2022, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, p. 51-55.

“KURUMS: A PHENOMENON OF THE CRYOSPHERE” (review of the monograph by V.R. Alekseev)

A.A. Galanin

Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Merzlotnaya str. 36, Yakutsk, 677010 Russia; agalanin@gmail.com

An analytical review of the recently published monograph by Vladimir Romanovich Alekseev is presented. This monograph is devoted to kurums, a specific type of the covering coarse clastic formations that are widespread in the mountainous permafrost of northern Asia.

Kurums, coarse clastic formations, mountainous permafrost, frost weathering, deserption, frost creep, heave, solifluction, rock glaciers, congelation ice, cryogenic processes, cryomorphogenesis