Data Dictionary

Column Type Label Description
Number text
Pingo code name text
Location text
Mentioned by text
If not marked on Topo Svalbard text
Longitude text
Latitude text
Pingo baseline height masl text
Pingo mound height m text
Diameter by maximum axis m text
Pingo base height above the valley bottom m text
Pingo summit height masl text
Valley bottom (river) height masl text
Crater with lake text
Dry crater text
Pingo spring text
No vegetation on pingo text
Pingo completely covered by vegetation text
Icings on aerial images text
Several concentric crater rims text
Proximal to LIA moraines text
Pingo morphology (spherical, elongated oval, eroded by river, c text
Size (small less than 4 m, medium less than 10 m, Large over 10 text
Crater characteristics text
Depth and thickness of massive ice if drilled text
Positioning (proluvial/alluvial fans, deluvial and solifluction text
Local Holocene transgression height - Bondevik Mangerud Barents text
Positioning relative to Holocene transgression (below/above) text
If found within LIA or Holocene moraine text
Erosion by modern river text
Valley part (upper valley, middle valley, lower valley) text
Slope exposition (north, south, other) text
Sediments (quaternary or supposedly quaternary, older than quat text
C14 date if available or date by aerial image comparison text
Hydrochemistry if sampled text
Icings on Topo Svalbard and Zoom Earth adjacent to the pingo text
Permafrost thickness if measured text
Observed recent dinamics text
Distance to closest glacier km text
Distance to closest glacier in same valley km text
Distance to the sea along the valley km text
Closest glacier's surface height masl (middle part of the glaci text
Height difference between pingo and glacier m text
Facing the sea while standing in valley parallel to the sea (Li text
Pingo group text
Region text
Tectonic structure text
Geological structure text
Rock type text
Vegetation (yes/no/a lot) text
Positioning on confirmed fault (yes/no/assumed) Norsk Polar Ins text
Very large (height more than 20 m or diameter more than 500 m) text
Very large (height more than 20 m) text

Additional Information

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Data last updated March 14, 2024
Metadata last updated March 14, 2024
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Media typetext/csv
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Datastore contains all records of source fileTrue
Has viewsTrue
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Ignore hashTrue
On same domainTrue
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Task created2024-03-14 11:08:47.565098
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