Colin K. Ballantyne, C. K. Ballantyne

The Periglaciation of Great Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

The effects of periglaciation on the British landscape are synthesised in this 1997 text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310161
• ISBN-10: 0521310164
• Artikelnr.: 34225787

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Context: 1. Introduction
2. Quaternary environmental change in Great Britain
3. Periglacial environments
Part II. The Periglaciation of Lowland Britain: 4. Ice wedge casts and relict tundra polygons
5. Ground ice depressions and related phenomena
6. Active layer processes: cryoturbation and patterned ground
7. Periglacial mass-wasting and slope evolution in lowland Britain
8. Lowland landscape modification by fluvial and aeolian processes
Part III. The Periglaciation of Up-Land Britain: 9. Frost weathering and mountain-top detritus
10. Patterned ground on British mountains
11. Solifluction landforms in upland Britain
12. Talus slopes and related landforms
13. Nival, fluvial, aeolian and coastal features
Part VI. Periglacial Environments: 14. Past and present periglacial environments.