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Figure 19: Foliated ground-ice mass (ice wedge) in organic rich silt exposed by god-minig operations on Wilber Creek, near Livengood, Alaska confluence of the Solimões River and the Negro River soil textures rock textural terms
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Figure 19: Foliated ground-ice mass (ice wedge) in organic rich silt exposed by god-minig operations on Wilber Creek, near Livengood, Alaska
confluence of the Solimões River and the Negro River
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