alass

alass (plural alasses)

1. Alternative form of alas (“geological depression”)
   • 1964, Richard J. Chorley, The History of the Study of Landforms: Or the Development of Geomorphology:

     (a) Diagrammatic presentation of the initial stages of evolution of thermokarst alass [...] (alass lake depressions). (b) The continued evolution of alass depressions : A […]

   • 1990, Dietrich Barsch, Geomorphology and Geoecology: General, Invited and Special Lectures, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geomorphology, Geomorphology and Geoecology, Frankfurt/Main, 1989, Vol. 1:

     [...] thermal abrasion on the shores of alass lakes , as well as intensification of thermokarst processes within […]

   • 2004, David J. A. Evans, Geomorphology: Critical Concepts in Geography, Taylor & Francis US, →ISBN, page 418:

     ... alass (thermokarst lake) development in Siberia, which also began about 130 years ago (Czudek and Demek, 1970). Mackay (1975) suggests that some of the thermokarst lakes in the upper Mackenzie Valley may be a result of climatic warming […]

   • 2007 May 17, Mary Chapman, The Geology of Mars: Evidence from Earth-Based Analogs, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

     ... alasses join each other, the lateral development of alass basins proceeds to form an alass valley which constitutes the mature development of the thermokarst evolution. On Mars, Acidalia and Utopia Planitiae received extraordinarily […]