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Eroding permafrost on Alaska’s Arctic Coast

By Sound Waves Newsletter 2017 (approx.)
A man stands on the edge of a low cliff severely undercut by the ocean. Closer to the camera a chunk of coast has fallen off
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Eroding permafrost on Alaska’s Arctic Coast. Inundation of permafrost like this produced subsea permafrost

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