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Northwest Territories
Patterned ground types
Sorted circles and nets
Low-centred lowland ice-wedge polygons in the foreground
and high-centred lowland polygons and a pingo in the
background
High-centred lowland ice-wedge polygons: material is dominated by
peat
Ice wedge associated with high-centred lowland polygons

Sorted nets
Nonsorted stripes
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