MIKHAIL IVANOVICH SUMGIN - THE FOUNDER OF GEOCRYOLOGY (to the 150th anniversary of the birth)
V.R. Alekseev
Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia
Keywords: permafrost, cryolithozone, frozen rocks, perennial and seasonal permafrost, cryogenic processes and phenomena
Abstract
Information about the life and work of an outstanding scientist Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin is presented. His contribution to the development of a young science of frozen rocks and related phenomena-geocryology is discussed.
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