| Depth: | 100 m |
| Drilling Angle: | 90 ° |
| Diameter: | 12 cm |
| Deepest Sensor: | 98 m |
| Drilling Method: | Dry percussion drilling, with compressed air.
Diameter 12 cm, equipped with 8.3 cm plastic tube |
| Date Drilled: | 15. Sep 2010 |
| Type: | Accessible by earth track in summer and by snow track in winter |
| Distance From Road: | 200 m |
| Type: | partial removal of debris cover on one side of the site |
| Permafrost Thickness: | > 100 m |
| Permafrost Zone: | Mountain |
| Vegetation: | No vegetation. |
| Hydrology: | No surface runoff.
Shallow snow cover (up to 60 cm observed), windblown.
No glacier cover during Little Ice Age and probably whole Holocene. |
| Landform: | Broad and rounded hilltop. |
| Lithology: | 0-1.5 m: in-situ frost chattered bedrock
1.5-100 m: homogenous paragneiss on whole profile, moderately fractured |
| Morphology: | Broad and rounded hilltop, covered by 1.5 to 2 m thick in situ frost chattered bedrock debris.
Solifluxion with stone lobes.
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| Description: | Hilltop at 3065 m elevation, dominating undulated landscape. |
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