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    Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity. This is the...
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    medium, such as water, wind, or ice. Types of mass wasting include creep, solifluction, rockfalls, debris flows, and landslides, each with its own characteristic...
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    the Falkland Islands and the Bjørnøya, where he first coined the term solifluction, influenced Walery Łoziński's creation of the concept of periglaciation...
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    Periglaciation in the eastern Drakensberg and Lesotho Highlands produced solifluction deposits and blockfields; including blockstreams and stone garlands....
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    contraction generating cracks which eventually become ice wedges and solifluction – gradual movement of soil down the slope as it repeatedly freezes and...
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  • Gelifluction, very similar to solifluction, is the seasonal freeze-thaw action upon waterlogging topsoils which induces downslope movement. Gelifluction...
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    Mountain slope deformation Soil slope deformation Rock slope deformation Soil creep Solifluction Note: the words in italics are placeholders. Use only one....
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    sandy regolith known locally as growan. This is readily stripped off by solifluction or surface wash when not protected by vegetation, notably during prolonged...
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    process called frost heaving is responsible for these features. Solifluction lobes – Solifluction lobes are formed when waterlogged soil slips down a slope...
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    fossiliferous Late and Middle Pleistocene floodplain, eolian, lake, and solifluction sediments cemented by permafrost. In the 1990s and 2000s, a Russian-German...
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    short, cool summers and long, cold winters Tundra humus soils with solifluction (permafrost soils) Low, evergreen vegetation, without trees, growing...
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    environment for the plant's offspring. Geocarpy is also linked with solifluction soils, where rapid thawing and freezing of surface soil causes almost...
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  • deposits (i.e., glacial till), other processes that create diamictons are solifluction, landslides, debris flows, and turbiditic olistostromes. The term can...
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    saturated chalk.". The Devil's Dyke V-shaped dry valley is the result of solifluction and river erosion. More than 14,000 years ago[unreliable source?], the...
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    Miocene onward. The slopes of the Carphartian contain at some locations solifluction deposits. Iron, gold and silver were found in great quantities[vague]...
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    is disputed. There is evidence of periglacial activity in the area. Solifluction appears to have created terraces on the north west flank of Mount Northcote...
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  • beneath the snow patch. Weathered particles are moved downslope by creep, solifluction and rill wash. Over time, this leads to the formation of nivation hollows...
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    mountain death rate in the world...." Arnold Heim: The Glaciation and Solifluction of Minya Gongkar. The Geographical Journal. Vol. 87, No. 5 (May, 1936)...
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    hill, is a Geological Conservation Review site. It provides evidence of solifluction (slow slipping of soil downhill due to repeated freezing and thawing)...
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  • is disputed. There is evidence of periglacial activity in the area. Solifluction appears to have created terraces on the northwest flank of Mount Northcote...
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    Congress, Paper No. 41-13, Saturday, July 26, 2003. Also: Late Holocene solifluction history reconstructed using tephrochronology Archived 2008-12-01 at the...
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    border. The summit of Thabana Ntlenyana is partially encircled by bogs. Solifluction deposits, blockfields, blockstreams and stone garlands can be found across...
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    avalanche-prone. During the short summer season all the slopes are prone to solifluction. Siberia portal "Protect Snow Leopard Habitat / Siberia". forests.org...
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  • classification Parent material decalcified unconsolidated materials including eolian, fluvial and lacustrine deposits, solifluction material and glacial till....
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    leached soil is most common. The podzols often occur on deep periglacial solifluction deposits down to 450 m. Alluvial floodplains have developed in the lower...
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    around 4,000 m (13,123 ft) where the ground has cracked to form hexagons. Solifluction occurs when the night temperatures freeze the soil before it thaws again...
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    animal trampling, vegetation and regolith behaviour, soil creep and solifluction including gelifluction. One explanation holds that terracettes are formed...
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    actual formation of stone runs involved five processes: weathering, solifluction, frost heaving, frost sorting, and washing. The stone runs are essentially...
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  • climates Pingo – Mound of earth-covered ice Rock glacier – Glacial landform Solifluction lobes and sheets – Freeze-thaw mass wasting slope processesPages displaying...
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    sufficient melting to create an air-filled cavity, sometimes aided by solifluction. Air movement can then assist enlargement through melting in summer and...
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