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Definition of talik in English: taliknounˈtalɪkˈtälik Geology An area of unfrozen ground surrounded by permafrost. Example sentencesExamples - Here, permafrost underlies almost in all types of landscape, but taliks (thawed ground) with temperature of 0-1oC mostly occur on southern slopes of mountains and along the Hövsgöl lakeshore.
- Pitty considered that even under extreme permafrost development, taliks would be present beneath major rivers in the Scllafield area.
- Methane is formed in taliks from the organic matter buried in permafrost and gets to rivers from there.
- Occasional tritium in some samples at depth indicate a combination of gradients from mine drawdown and taliks allowing recharge of modern fresh water to depth.
- Phantom and Astro lakes are sufficiently large to sustain through taliks and faulting beneath the lakes may also provide conduits into the subsurface.
Origin 1940s: from Russian, from tayatʹ 'melt'. Definition of talik in US English: taliknounˈtälik Geology An area of unfrozen ground surrounded by permafrost. Example sentencesExamples - Methane is formed in taliks from the organic matter buried in permafrost and gets to rivers from there.
- Here, permafrost underlies almost in all types of landscape, but taliks (thawed ground) with temperature of 0-1oC mostly occur on southern slopes of mountains and along the Hövsgöl lakeshore.
- Phantom and Astro lakes are sufficiently large to sustain through taliks and faulting beneath the lakes may also provide conduits into the subsurface.
- Occasional tritium in some samples at depth indicate a combination of gradients from mine drawdown and taliks allowing recharge of modern fresh water to depth.
- Pitty considered that even under extreme permafrost development, taliks would be present beneath major rivers in the Scllafield area.
Origin 1940s: from Russian, from tayatʹ ‘melt’. |