pipkrake
English
Ice needles (pipkrake) pushing soil particles upwards in Shiga Kōgen, Japan.
Etymology
From Swedish pipkrake, from pip (“tube”) + krake (“thin, fine, weak”), coined by Swedish botanist Henrik Hesselman in 1907.
Noun
pipkrake
- Needle ice; ice structures formed when the air temperature is below 0℃ and the soil is not.
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