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MARC recordPeriglacial environment / Matti Seppälä.
| Title: | Periglacial environment / Matti Seppälä. |
| Author(s): | Seppälä, Matti. |
| Date: | 2005. |
| Publisher: | Oxford: Oxford University Press |
| In: | Physical Geography of Fennoscandia. (2005.), |
| Abstract: | Discusses definition of periglacial zone and distribution of periglacial phenomena in Fennoscandia, noting existence of only sporadic and discontinuous permafrost in northern Fennoscandia and Caledonian mountain range, with Arctic limit (+10°C isotherm in warmest month) furthest north in Northern Hemisphere. Discusses altitudinal permafrost zonation, and occurrences of: palsas, active layer and seasonal frost, large non-sorted polygons, pingo-like frost mounds and thermokarst ponds, and ice-cored moraines. Discusses occurrences of other typical frost features, such as frost shattering, solifluction and patterned grounds, and associated landforms in periglacial environment, such as active non-sorted circles, stone pits, and boulders on sub-alpine heaths, nivation hollows, and erosion/debris accumulation due to slush flows. |
| Notes: | In: The Physical Geography of Fennoscandia / Matti Seppälä, ed. |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground. 551.4 -- Geomorphology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.582 -- Climatology of particular places. 551.342 -- Frost shattering. 551.343 -- Periglacial processes. Thermokarst. 551.343.2 -- Cryoturbation and patterned ground. 551.343.72 -- Frost mounds. Pingos. 551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology. 551.345.1 -- Permafrost, surveys. 551.345.3 -- Permafrost, composition and structure. Ice wedges. 551.331.52 -- Glaciated valleys. 551.332.52 -- Moraines, terminal and recessional. 551.524 -- Air temperature. 551.524.37 -- Frosts. 556 -- Hydrology. 551.579.2 -- Water supply from snow. 551.3.053 -- Geological erosion, corrosion and disintegration. 551.3.053-032.61 -- Soil erosion. 001.4 -- Nomenclature and terminology. 574.4 -- Ecology, terrestrial. 581.526.34 -- Heathland plant formations. E8 -- Glaciology: frost action and permafrost. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*548) -- Scandinavia. (*56) -- Finland. (*57) -- Sweden. (*58) -- Norway. |
| SPRI record no.: | 195250 |
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