Preface ....................................................... vii
Permafrost ...................................................... 1
Chapter 1 Geotechnical Considerations and Technical
Solutions for Infrastructure in Mountain
Permafrost ........................................... 3
Lukas U. Arenson, Marcia Phillips and Sarah
M. Springman
Chapter 2 Permafrost Modeling in Weather Forecasts and
Climate Projections ................................. 51
Nicole Möolders and Gerhard Kramm
Chapter 3 Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in Permafrost:
Isolation, Biodiversity, Phenotypic and Genotypic
Analysis ............................................ 89
Sofia Mindlin, Mayya Petrova, Zhosefine Gorlenko,
Vera Soina, Natalia Khachikian and Ekaterina
Karaevskaya
Chapter 4 Similarities Between the Recent Permafrost in
North-Western Canada and the Pleistocene Relict
Cryogenic Forms in Central Europe (Hungary) ........ 107
Ákos Szabolcs Fábián, János Kovács, Charles
Tarnocai and Gábor Varga
Chapter 5 Periglacial Landforms and Processes on Disko
Island, Greenland .................................. 131
Jacob C. Yde
Chapter 6 Mountain Permafrost Degradation in the Nepal
Himalayas and the Russia Altai Mountains ........... 147
Kotaro Fukui and Yoshiyuki Fujii
Glaciers ...................................................... 161
Chapter 7 The Former Glaciation of High- (Tibet) and
Central Asia and its Global Climatic Impact - an
Ice Age Theory With A Remark on Potential Warmer
Climatic Cycles in the Future ...................... 163
Matthias Kuhle
Chapter 8 Fungi in High Arctic Glaciers ...................... 237
Lorena Butinar, Silva Sonjak and Nina Gunde-
Cimerman
Chapter 9 The Expansion of Supraglacial Lakes in the
Himalayas: Its History and Mechanisms .............. 265
Kazuhisa A. Chikita
Chapter 10 Surge-Type Glaciers on Disko Island, Greenland ..... 283
Jacob C. Yde and N. Tvis Knudsen
Index ......................................................... 299
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