Secondary frost heave in freezing soils
Frost heave describes the phenomenon whereby soil freezing causes upwards surface motion due to the action of capillary suction imbibing water from the unfrozen region below. The expansion of water on freezing is a small part of the overall surface heave and it is the flow of water towards the freez...
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University of Oxford
1996
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