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noun
The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
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noun
The geologic processes that create permafrost.
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The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).
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History
From cryo- + -genesis.
