English

Noun

cryogenesis ‎(plural cryogeneses)

1. The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
2. The geologic processes that create permafrost.
3. The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).

Related terms

• cryogen
• cryogenic
• cryogenics

References

1. 2011: Pratap Singh, Umesh Kumar Haritashya, P. Pradeep Kumar, Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers

• Soil cryogenesis is defined as a process dictating many important properties and regimes of permafrost affected soils. Soil cryogenesis is influenced by climatic parameters, the earth-atmosphere interactions, the properties of soils, the conditions of the permafrost.

1. 1991: American Institute of Biological Sciences, Soviet soil science, Volume 23, Issues 1-5

• Cryogenesis controls soil formation in the permafrost zone..