DCHP-3

pingo

[< Esk. pinguq]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — North

a large mound of ice covered with soil forced up by the pressure of expanding ice in the subsoil.

Quotations

1941
We . . . made an expedition to the "pingos" or "bingos," those strange mounds that are landmarks on the coast. . . .
1957
And what causes the "pingoes," strange mounds of pure clear ice fifty to a hundred and fifty feet high.
1966
Since then only a few pingos have risen above the even surface.
2n.

a curiously-shaped pillar of clay, or cemented gravel, or other material, caused by erosion. [See picture at demoiselle.]

Quotations

1958
Wind erosion has caused the hard sandstone cores of these pingos to be whittled away to fantastic shapes in the Red River Badlands of the Drumheller Canyon in Alberta.