Image 6005.01.14 by Leslie Garland

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6005.01.14 Road subsidence due to frost heave next to Lake Torneträsk Norrbottens Län Sweden Keywords: Caused by ground water freezing in the winter and forming ice lenses which first lift the road and then when they melt in the summer the road subsides in to the void previously occupied by the ice lens. Note the undulations in the crash barriers Tornetrask Swedish arctic Lappland nature natural phenomena lenses frozen sub soil cold zero dip hump uneven damage route car travel tourism holiday vacation touring northern civil highway engineering
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Photographer: Leslie Garland
Collection: Sweden
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Upload Date: 2004-09-21 19:01:16
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Road subsidence due to frost heave next to Lake Torneträsk

Norrbottens Län Sweden
Keywords: Caused by ground water freezing in the winter and forming ice lenses which first lift the road and then when they melt in the summer the road subsides in to the void previously occupied by the ice lens. Note the undulations in the crash barriers Tornetrask Swedish arctic Lappland nature natural phenomena lenses frozen sub soil cold zero dip hump uneven damage route car travel tourism holiday vacation touring northern civil highway engineering