Stratigraphy of Periglacial Features in East Anglia and Adjacent Areas

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter v
2. Contents vii
3. The Periglacial Environment 1
4. Factors Influencing Discontinuous Permafrost in Canada 11
5. Underground Ice in the Quaternary Deposits of the Yana-Indigirka Lowland as a Genetic and Stratigraphic Indicator 55
6. Permafrost and Tundra Polygons in Northern Sweden 65
7. Soils of the Okpilak River Region, Alaska 93
8. Distribution of Small-Scale Periglacial and Glacial Geomorphological Features on Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories,Canada 129
9. Minor Periglacial Phenomena Among the High Volcanoes of Mexico 161
10. Cyclical Change in a Patterned-Ground Ecosystem, Thule, Greenland 177
11. Earth and Ice Mounds: A Terminological Discussion 203
12. Soil Stripes and Polygonal Ground in the Subantarctic Islands of Crozet and Kerguelen 217
13. Lichenometric Dating in the Central Alaska Range 223
14. Investigations of the Holocene Deposits Around Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland 249
15. The Pleistocene History of Antarctica 263
16. Isostatic Recovery Near Glacier-Ice Margins: 271
17. Quaternary Periglacial Wind-Worn Sand Grains in Ussr 285
18. Distribution, Source, and Age of The Loess On the Plain of Caen, Normandy, France 303
19. The Age of the Pingos of Belgium 321
20. A Peculiar Type of Fossil Ice Fissure 337
21. Periglacial Phenomena Recently Observed in the Terraces of the Seine Southeast of Bonnières, France 347
22. Fossil Ice Wedge Polygons in Southeast Essex, England 351
23. Slope Development Affected by Frost Fissures and Thermal Erosion 365
24. Dolomite Tors and Sandfilled Sink Holes in the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire, England 387
25. Permafrost and Temperature Conditions in England During the Last Glacial Period 399
26. Stratigraphy of Periglacial Features in East Anglia and Adjacent Areas 411
27. Processes and Environments of the Brazilian Quaternary 417