File:Frost polygons in ground (Gardner Lake trailhead, Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming, USA) 8.jpg

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English: The ground seen here is in the Beartooth Mountains along the Montana-Wyoming border. The cracks formed as the soil experienced numerous freeze-thaw cycles in alpine to subalpine tundra conditions. The resulting crack-defined structures are called "frost polygons", which are one specific type of "patterned ground" formed by frost heaving.

Locality: ground near the Gardner Lake trailhead, southern side of Route 212 / Beartooth Highway, northwestern Wyoming, USA

Info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterned_ground and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving
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Author James St. John

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