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Ice-marginal and periglacial processes and sediments /

1862393273 (hbk.)

9781862393271 (hbk.)

b514086

Ice-marginal and periglacial processes and sediments /

[Book]

edited by I.P. Martini, H.M. French and A. Pérez Alberti

London :

Geological Society,

2011

284 p. :

ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;

26 cm

Geological Society special publication,

no. 354

0305-8719 ;

Includes bibliographical references and index

Ice-marginal and periglacial processes and sediments: an introduction -- Fingerprints of Quaternary glaciations on Svalbard -- Modes of sediment delivery to the grounding line of a fast-flowing tidewater glacier: implications for ice-margin conditions and glacier dynamics -- The kinematics of ancient tidewater ice margins: criteria for recognition from grounding-line moraines -- The formation of Alpine lateral moraines inferred from sedimentology and radar reflection patterns: a case study from Gornergletscher, Switzerland -- Upper Pleistocene glacial valley-junction sediments at Pias, Trevinca Mountains, NW Spain -- Palaeoshorelines of glacial Lake Kuray-Chuja, south-central Siberia: form, sediments and process -- Palaeozoic glacial depositional environments of SW Saudi Arabia: process and product -- Frozen sediments and previously-frozen sediments -- Gullies, polygons and mantles in Martian permafrost environments: cold desert landforms and sedimentary processes during recent Martian geological history -- Rethinking weathering and pedogenesis in alpine periglacial regions: some Scandinavian evidence -- Role of lichens in granite weathering in cold and arid environments of continental Antarctica -- Periglacial sediments: do they exist? -- Stratified slope deposits: periglacial and other processes involved -- Holocene slope dynamics in Sierra Nevada (south Spain). Sedimentological analysis of solifluction landforms and lake deposits -- Aeolian processes and features in cool climates -- Cold-climate slope deposits and landscape modifications of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, Eastern USA

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Glacial landforms

Glaciology

Periglacial processes

French, Hugh M

Martini, I. P., (Ireneo Peter),1935-

Pérez Alberti, Augusto

20111115123800.0

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