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NOAA Photo Library Image - line5193

An example of thermo-karst topography caused by the melting of permafrost causing the road to drop. In this instance the relative elevation change is approximately 10 feet.

Image ID: line5193, NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Alaska, Seward Peninsula
Photo Date: 2010 August
Photographer: Dr. John Cloud, NOAA Central Library


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