Cryosols

Soils having one or more cryic horizons (horizon with evidence of being perennially frozen) within 100 cm from the soil surface.

Cryosols typically occur in arctic and mountainous regions where permanently frozen subsoil or "permafrost" is found.

 

Swirl-like patterns in a cryoturbated or "cryic" horizon

To the Cryosol Picture Gallery