cryogenesis

  1. Noun.  The combination of thermophysical, physiochemical, physiomechanical processes occurring in freezing and thawing earth materials.
  2. Noun.  The geologic processes that create permafrost.
  3. Noun.  The process of mediablasting a surface with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide).
  4. References.  '''2011''': Pratap Singh, Umesh Kumar Haritashya, P. Pradeep Kumar, ''Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers''.
  5. References.  '''1991''': American Institute of Biological Sciences, ''Soviet soil science, Volume 23, Issues 1-5''.

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