0 itemsPeriglacial and Paraglacial Processes and Environments
| Product Code: | SP320 |
| Type: | Book |
| Series: | GSL Special Publications |
| Ten Digit ISBN: | 1-86239-281-1 |
| Thirteen Digit ISBN: | 978-1-86239-281-6 |
| Author/Editor: | Edited by J Knight and S Harrison |
| Publisher: | GSL |
| Publication Date: | 12 August 2009 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Weight: | 0.85kg |
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| Description
Periglacial and paraglacial environments, located outside ice sheet margins but responding to similar climate forcings, are key to identifying climate change effects upon the Earth system. These environments are relicts of cold Earth processes and so are most sensitive to global warming. Changes in the distribution and thickness of permafrost in continental interiors have implications for ecosystem and landscape stability. Periglacial Alpine environments are experiencing increased rockfall and mass movement, leading to rock glacier instability and sediment release to downstream rivers. In turn, these landscape effects impact on natural hazards and human activities in these sensitive and geologically transient environments. Papers in this volume explore some of these interrelated issues in field studies from Europe, North America and Asia. The volume will be of interest to geomorphologists, modellers, environmental managers, planners and engineers working on landscape, climate and environmental change in periglacial and paraglacial areas. |
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Contents Periglacial and paraglacial environments: a view from the past into the future, J Knight & S Harrison Periglacial processes and environmentsFrom climatic to global change geomorphology: contemporary shifts in periglacial geomorphology, M-F André Holocene microweathering rates and processes on ice-eroded bedrock, Røldal area, Hardangervidda, southern Norway, D T Nicholson The role of buoyancy in palsa formation, M Seppälä & K Kujala Basal glacier ice and massive ground ice: different scientists, same science? R I Waller, J B Murton & P G Knight Proglacial, periglacial or paraglacial? O Slaymaker Paraglacial environments and processes in the British IslesOn the interpretation of discrete debris accumulations associated with glaciers with special reference to the British Isles, W B Whalley Paraglacial rock slope failure as an agent of glacial trough widening, D Jarman Rockfall talus slopes and associated talus-foot features in the glaciated uplands of Great Britain and Ireland: periglacial, paraglacial or composite landforms? P Wilson Paraglacial adjustment of the fluvial system to Late Pleistocene deglaciation: the Milfield Basin, northern England, D G Passmore & C Waddington The limitations of Quaternary lithostratigraphy: an example from southern Ireland, J Knight Paraglacial processes, climate change and sediment supplyGeotechnical controls on a steep lateral moraine undergoing paraglacial slope adjustment, A M Curry, T B Sands & P R Porter Fluvial response to Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Nostetuko River valley, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, K Wilkie & J J Clague Paraglacial geomorphology of Quaternary volcanic landscapes in the southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, P A Friele & J J Clague Glacially conditioned rock-slope failures and disturbance-regime landscapes, Upper Indus Basin, northern Pakistan, K Hewitt Climate sensitivity: implications for the response of geomorphological systems to future climate change, S Harrison Index |
Reviews
This most interesting and useful volume ends with a summary chapter by one of the editors (Harrison), who puts the paraglacial environments into the wider context of climate change and climate sensitivity. He suggests that, with an ongoing climate change towards warming, we shall see more paraglaciation, and that for some time this predicted period of sediment reworking will be the last episode of major sediment movement on the time scale of the next tens of thousands of years.
To conclude, the Geological Society produced a most valuable addition to the series, of primary interest to geomorphologists, but certainly to Quaternary geologists and sedimentologists as well. It contains a number of well documented case studies and a few thought-provoking overviews and discussions. Highly recommended to any earth scientist interested in cold environments.
Piotr Migon
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
This review was featured in ‘Geologos’
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
23 April 2010
Like all Geological Society Special Publications, this is a superbly produced book but, being the outcome of a scientific symposium (in this case a joint meeting of the Geological Society of London and the Quaternary Research Association)
There is much in this eclectic collection that interested me a lot. In general, its strengths lie in the individual contributions, rather than the book as a whole and in the ideas discussed rather than the new evidence presented. However, I am sceptical of the attempts in the first and last chapters to link periglacial and paraglacial concepts and to justify the importance of both primarily in relation to climatic change in general and the future impact of global warming in particular.
Review featured The Holocene 2010 20: 1003
Reviewed by: John A. Matthews, Swansea University, UK
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
30 September 2010
This SP is divided into three sections, the first dealing with periglacial environments. This is followed by a section on paraglacial processes and environments in the British Isles, and a final section relating to more general paraglacial issues.
....this is an interesting publication bringing together a number of studies that demonstrate key issues in cold-climate geomorphology and elaborate on the subject’s role, with particular reference to sensitive environmental responses to ongoing climate change. The collection provides a thoughtful commentary on the paraglacial concept.
Review By: Wishard A Mitchell, Department of Geography, Durham University
Featured in Geoscientist Vol 21 No 1 Feb 2011-02-08
This review was submitted by:
Mrs Julie Webster
01 March 2011