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MARC recordGeomorphic change in Canada's temperate mountains / Olav Slaymaker.
| Title: | Geomorphic change in Canada's temperate mountains / Olav Slaymaker. |
| Author(s): | Slaymaker, Olav. |
| Date: | 2012. |
| Publisher: | Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell |
| In: | Changing cold environments : a Canadian perspective. (2012.), |
| Abstract: | Introduces "paraglacial" nature of Canada's temperate mountain landscape, in transition from glacial (both Pleistocene and Holocene "neoglacial") to periglacial conditions, with contemporary hydroclimate driving fluvial, periglacial and mass-movement processes at local scale. Describes present morphology and spatial variability, geoecology and ecological zones, sediment cascade, and morphometry. Discusses hydroclimate and cryospheric phenomena, distinguishing perhumid insular, moist maritime, temperate interior alpine, and temperate, dry interior mountain regions, and covering ice caps and glaciers, snow, permafrost, river and lake ice. Examines rates and kinds of geomorphic processes (mountain relief development, process measurement, weathering and slow mass movement, mass movement/fluvial transition, fluvial processes, basin sediment budgets, and process domain concept). Discusses disturbance regimes and landscape transitions, and likely increase in natural hazards. |
| Notes: | In: Changing cold environments : a Canadian perspective / Hugh French, Olav Slaymaker, eds. |
| Keywords: | 551.4 -- Geomorphology. 551.34 -- Geocryology. Frozen ground. 556 -- Hydrology. 551.336 -- Ice ages. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. 551.582 -- Climatology of particular places. 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.343 -- Periglacial processes. Thermokarst. 551.324.63 -- Land ice, advance and retreat. 551.33 -- Glacial geology. 551.331 -- Glacial erosion. 551.332.2 -- Drift, glacial. Deposits. 551.311.21 -- Erosion, caused by running water. 574.4 -- Ecology, terrestrial. 581.524.4 -- Zonation, botany. 551.345.2 -- Permafrost, formation and decay. 551.326.8 -- Ice on inland waters. 551.579 -- Hydrometeorology. 551.24 -- Geotectonics. 551.3.051 -- Sedimentation and stratification. 551.311.23 -- Weathering. 624.144 -- Damage caused by snow and ice. B -- Geology and soil sciences. (*41) -- Canada. (237.1) -- Rockies and other mountains of western North America. |
| SPRI record no.: | 199382 |
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