Spatial pattern of tebelers in the Chuyskaya Steppe, Gorny Altai Mountains

Abstract

«Tebelers» are hummocks due to frost heaving: they are formed by freezing of water-saturated horizons within the lose mantle. They are closely associated in the region with ice-cored pingoes and may be attributed to pressure of ground water of artesian type, probably with additional feeding by fissure water.