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Keyword - palsa: "A Fennoscandian term for a round or elongated hillock or mound, maximum height of about 10 m, composed of a peat layer overlying mineral soil. It has a perennially frozen core which extends from within the covering peat layer downward into or toward the underlying mineral soil (Brown and Kupsch, 1974)."

  0048 - Aerial view of palsa-like features
  0049 - Aerial view a palsa-like feature
   0108 - Aerial view of low, pingo, or palsa-like features
  0109 - Aerial view of palsa-like mounds
  0131 - Individual and coalescing palsa-like mounds
  0243 - Ground view of palsa-like features
  0244 - Low-altitude photo of palsa-like features
   0245 - Ground view of collapse scarplets of a degrading palsa-like feature
   0246 - Ground view of high relief fields of palsa-like features
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
     
  
  
  
  
  

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