Periglacial and Paraglacial Processes and Environments
Product code: SP320
Print publication date: 11/08/2009
Earth and Solar System History, Quaternary geology, Engineering Geology, Sedimentology, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392816
Author/Edited by: Edited by J Knight and S Harrison
Weight: 0.85kg
Number of pages: 280
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/320/1
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Product Code: SP320
Edited by J Knight and S Harrison
Special Publication 320
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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Periglacial and paraglacial environments: a view from the past into the future, J Knight & S Harrison
Periglacial processes and environments
From 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 Isles
On 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 supply
Geotechnical 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
25.11.2019
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.
