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tjaele Geol.
(‖ ˈʃɛːlə, ˈtʃeɪlə)
Also taele, tjäle.
[a. Sw. tjäle ice in frozen ground.]
Frozen ground; also, permafrost. Freq. attrib.
1924Geogr. Jrnl. LXIII. 210 The arrangement of materials can usually be traced right down to the tjaele. Ibid. 211 The tjaele ice was still very close to the surface. 1937Nature 4 Sept. 410/1 The Third Glaciation is represented in the north-west by the Irish Sea Drifts,..and by taele-gravels and melt-water flood-gravels. 1939Geogr. Jrnl. XCIV. 451 Near the edge of the snow the tjäle approaches the surface and underneath the snow the soil is completely frozen. 1960B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xiv. 314 Solifluxion gravels of various sorts have long been recognised and mapped in Great Britain, where they are known by a variety of names, e.g. head, coombe rock, taele gravel..warp and trail. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms iv. 124 A climatic refrigeration, allied to the onset of periglacial conditions and the formation of permafrost or annual taele.., is capable of rendering permeable rocks impermeable. |