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