Sentences with phrase «yedoma permafrost»

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One type of permafrost called yedoma is full of grass roots, bones, and other biological material.

On - shore Siberian CH4 sources comprise permafrost including yedoma (1,000 Gtonnes) and resumption of biota decay (700 Gtonnes), mostly within the top 5 metres of land covered by continuous permafrost.

Scientists are studying how carbon - rich permafrost known as yedoma acts much like frozen vegetables to hungry microbes — and is becoming an additional source of heat - trapping gases.