ground ice

How to use ground ice in a sentence

• The working season is very short, and in many localities on the mainland 'ground ice' is permanent at slight depths.

  Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace Knox

• A frequent inconvenience in the use of water power in cold climates is that peculiar form of ice called anchor or ground ice.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 | Various

• Everything points to radiation as the prime cause of the formation of ground-ice.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 | Various

• A striking example of the formation of ground-ice is mentioned by the Commander Steenk, of Pillau.

  Ten Thousand Wonderful Things | Edmund Fillingham King

• Mr. Prestwich has suggested that ground-ice may have had its influence in modifying the ancient alluvium of the Somme.

  The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man | Charles Lyell