Wind as a Geomorphic Agent in Cold Climates
Wind as a Geomorphic Agent in Cold Climates
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The Arctic is characterized by strangely eroded rocks, special wind-formed lakes, sand dunes and loess deposits that owe their formation to aeolian processes controlled by snow cover and frost formation. This book presents a detailed description and explanation of these wind-generated polar landforms, modern-day as well as those preserved in the geological record. It is an important introduction to this area of geocryology and a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in geomorphology, geology and environmental science.
- Brings together material that has not previously been published in English
- Includes information about high-latitude features that are not discussed in other aeolian geomorphology books
- Contains numerous illustrations and photographs to enable the reader to identify and interpret these geomorphological features
Product details
July 2004Hardback
9780521564069
368 pages
255 × 183 × 27 mm
0.935kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Delimitation and characterization of cold environments
- 3. General wind patterns in polar regions
- 4. Wind drift of mineral material
- 5. Abrasion
- 6. Deflation
- 7. Question of oriented lakes
- 8. Accumulation
- 9. Wind directions interpreted from field evidence
- 10. Ice wedge casts and sand wedges
- 11. Snow
- 12. Drift of snow
- 13. Snow accumulation
- 14. Deflation of snow cover
- 15. Snow and frost formation
- 16. Aeolian landforms indicating palaeowind conditions
- References
- Index.
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