The periglacial environment : past and present /
The periglacial environment : past and present /
edited by Troy L. Péwé.
- Montreal [Québec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1969. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (ix, 487 pages) : illustrations, maps
At head of title: Arctic Institute of North America. "Based on the Symposium on Cold Climate Environments and Processes, VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research, held at Fairbanks, Alaska, August 18-25, 1965."
Includes bibliographical references.
The Periglacial Environment / Factors Influencing Discontinuous Permafrost in Canada / Underground ice in the Quaternary Deposits of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland as a Genetic and Stratigraphic Indicator / Permafrost and Tundra Polygons in Northern Sweden / Soils of the Okpilak River Region, Alaska / Distribution of Small-Scale Periglacial and Glacial Geomorphological Features on Axel Heiberg Islands, N.W.T., Canada / Minor Periglacial Phenomena Among the High Volcanoes of Mexico / Cyclical Change in a Patterned-Ground Ecosystem, Thule, Greenland / Earth and Ice Mounds: A Terminological Discussion / Soil Stripes and Polygonal Ground in the Subantarctic Islands of Crozet and Kerguellen / Lichenometric Dating in the Central Alaska Range / Investigations of the Holocene Deposits Around Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland / The Pleistocene History of Antarctica / Isostatic Recovery Near Glacier-Ice Margins: Some Evidence from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada / Quaternary Periglacial Wind-Worn Sand Grains in USSR / Distribution, Source, and Age of the Loess on the Plain of Caen, Normandy, France / The Age of the Pingos of Belgium / A Peculiar Type of Fossil Ice Fissure / Periglacial Phenomena Recently Observed in the Terraces of the Seine Southeast of Bonnieres France / Fossil Ice Wedge Polygons in Southeast Essex, England / Slope Development Affected by Frost Fissures and Thermal Erosion / Dolomite Tors and Sandfilled Sink Holes in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire, England / Permafrost and Temperature Conditions in England During the Last Glacial Period / Stratigraphy of Periglacial Features in East Anglia and Adjacent Areas / Processes and Environments of the Brazilian Quaternary / Troy L. Pewe -- R.J.E. Brown -- A.I. Popov -- Anders Rapp and Lennart Annersten -- Jerry Brown -- Sten Rudberg -- Jose L. Lorenzo -- John W. Marr -- Jan Lundqvist -- P. Bellair -- Richard D. Reger and Troy L. Pewe -- Anker Weidick -- K.K. Markov -- Stuart A. Harris -- Andre Cailleux -- A. Journaux [and others] -- William Mullenders and Frans Gullentops -- Paul Macar -- Elaine Bass de Menorval -- Ruth Gruhn and Alan Lyle Bryan -- Jan Dylik -- Trevor D. Ford -- R.B.G. Williams -- R.G. West -- Joao Jose Bigarella, Maria Regina Mousinho, and Jorge Xavier de Silva.
9780773593633
Geomorphology--Congresses.
Geology--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
GB641 / .P475 2014
At head of title: Arctic Institute of North America. "Based on the Symposium on Cold Climate Environments and Processes, VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research, held at Fairbanks, Alaska, August 18-25, 1965."
Includes bibliographical references.
The Periglacial Environment / Factors Influencing Discontinuous Permafrost in Canada / Underground ice in the Quaternary Deposits of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland as a Genetic and Stratigraphic Indicator / Permafrost and Tundra Polygons in Northern Sweden / Soils of the Okpilak River Region, Alaska / Distribution of Small-Scale Periglacial and Glacial Geomorphological Features on Axel Heiberg Islands, N.W.T., Canada / Minor Periglacial Phenomena Among the High Volcanoes of Mexico / Cyclical Change in a Patterned-Ground Ecosystem, Thule, Greenland / Earth and Ice Mounds: A Terminological Discussion / Soil Stripes and Polygonal Ground in the Subantarctic Islands of Crozet and Kerguellen / Lichenometric Dating in the Central Alaska Range / Investigations of the Holocene Deposits Around Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland / The Pleistocene History of Antarctica / Isostatic Recovery Near Glacier-Ice Margins: Some Evidence from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada / Quaternary Periglacial Wind-Worn Sand Grains in USSR / Distribution, Source, and Age of the Loess on the Plain of Caen, Normandy, France / The Age of the Pingos of Belgium / A Peculiar Type of Fossil Ice Fissure / Periglacial Phenomena Recently Observed in the Terraces of the Seine Southeast of Bonnieres France / Fossil Ice Wedge Polygons in Southeast Essex, England / Slope Development Affected by Frost Fissures and Thermal Erosion / Dolomite Tors and Sandfilled Sink Holes in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire, England / Permafrost and Temperature Conditions in England During the Last Glacial Period / Stratigraphy of Periglacial Features in East Anglia and Adjacent Areas / Processes and Environments of the Brazilian Quaternary / Troy L. Pewe -- R.J.E. Brown -- A.I. Popov -- Anders Rapp and Lennart Annersten -- Jerry Brown -- Sten Rudberg -- Jose L. Lorenzo -- John W. Marr -- Jan Lundqvist -- P. Bellair -- Richard D. Reger and Troy L. Pewe -- Anker Weidick -- K.K. Markov -- Stuart A. Harris -- Andre Cailleux -- A. Journaux [and others] -- William Mullenders and Frans Gullentops -- Paul Macar -- Elaine Bass de Menorval -- Ruth Gruhn and Alan Lyle Bryan -- Jan Dylik -- Trevor D. Ford -- R.B.G. Williams -- R.G. West -- Joao Jose Bigarella, Maria Regina Mousinho, and Jorge Xavier de Silva.
9780773593633
Geomorphology--Congresses.
Geology--Congresses.
Electronic Books.
GB641 / .P475 2014