Periglaciation (redirect from Periglacial environments)
Periglaciation (adjective: "periglacial", referring to places at the edges of glacial areas) describes geomorphic processes that result from seasonal...
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A periglacial lake is a lake bordering a glacier, usually found along the fringes of large ice sheets. Periglaciation suggests an environment located...
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landscapes. As a discipline periglacial geomorphology is close but different to Quaternary science and geocryology. Periglacial geomorphology is concerned...
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Loess (section Periglacial loess)
Earth's land area is covered by loesses or similar deposits. A loess is a periglacial or aeolian (windborne) sediment, defined as an accumulation of 20% or...
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Pingo (category Periglacial landforms)
permafrost environments, such as the Arctic and subarctic. A pingo is a periglacial landform, which is defined as a non-glacial landform or process linked...
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Permafrost and Periglacial Processes is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on permafrost and periglacial geomorphology. It...
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море) or Mansiyskoe Lake (Russian: Мансийское озеро, Mansi Lake), was a periglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob and Yenisei...
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saturated in water found in periglacial regions. However it was later discovered that various slow waste movements in periglacial regions did not require...
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actual valley bottom is unclear. Trough-shaped valleys occur mainly in periglacial regions and in tropical regions of variable wetness. Both climates are...
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Permafrost (category Periglacial landforms)
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 1 (1): 31–43. Bibcode:1990PPPr....1...31F. doi:10.1002/ppp.3430010105. Black, Robert F. (1976). "Periglacial Features...
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lack of glacial morphology (e.g. roche moutonnées) and the existence of periglacial regolith that has not been reworked by glaciers. Estimates of the mean...
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Coordinates 45°36′07″N 24°37′01″E / 45.602°N 24.617°E / 45.602; 24.617 Type periglacial Basin countries Romania Max. length 360 m (1,180 ft) Max. width 190 m...
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Mount Kenya (section Periglacial landforms)
Kenya is on the equator the freezing nightly temperatures result in periglacial landforms. There is permafrost a few centimetres (inches) below the surface...
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with the clays. These deposits were brought in by the winds during the periglacial periods, suggesting that wide, flat marshes were then part of the landscape...
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Jeffrey R. Moore; Kelly R. MacGregor; Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh (2012). "Periglacial weathering and headwall erosion in cirque glacier bergschrunds". Geology...
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Thermokarst (category Periglacial landforms)
ages to warm interglacial conditions Pingo – Mound of earth-covered ice Periglacial lake – Lake bordering a glacier or ice sheet van Huissteden, J.; Berrittella...
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streams and terraces found near the summit of Matroosberg evidences past periglacial activity which likely occurred during the LGM. Palaeoclimatological proxies...
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phenomena play a particularly significant role in patterned ground in periglacial environments. The growth of needle ice lifts a detached, frozen soil...
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they are associated with the oldest stages of activity at Parinacota. Periglacial landscapes are frequent in the area; they include rounded landforms,...
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as a boundary between Abkhazia and Georgia proper. There are several periglacial and crater lakes in mountainous Abkhazia. Lake Ritsa is the most important...
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64°01′07″N 16°23′06″W / 64.01861°N 16.38500°W / 64.01861; -16.38500 Lake type periglacial Basin countries Iceland Surface area 4.0 km2 (1.5 sq mi)...
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Geology of Pennsylvania (section Periglacial)
The Geology of Pennsylvania consists of six distinct physiographic provinces, three of which are subdivided into different sections. Each province has...
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valleys. These steep slopes usually originate from late-Pleistocene periglacial processes. There are five main stages of scree slope evolution:[citation...
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"Frost weathering: recent advances and future directions". Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 19 (2): 195–210. Bibcode:2008PPPr...19..195M. doi:10.1002/ppp...
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bog may be limited to areas which are shaded from direct sunshine. In periglacial climates a patterned form of blanket bog may occur, known as a string...
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have been key drivers of climate variability in the subtropical region. Periglacial features in the eastern Lesotho Highlands might have been reactivated...
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start of the Holocene, possibly because they were specialized to cold periglacial tundra-steppe habitat. When this environment was replaced largely by...
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principles in the mountain landscape domain and geoheritage', Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2217 World Geodetic System (WGS-84). Available...
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Following this thought the blockfields would then have been reworked by periglacial action. Most known blockfields are located in the northern hemisphere...
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NASA". Retrieved 2023-11-30. Desportes, C.; Rice, M.; Lee, P. (2007). "Periglacial polygon fields on Devon Island, High Arctic" (PDF). Lunar and Planetary...
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