Landscapes of transition [electronic resource] : landform assemblages and transformations in cold regions / edited by Kenneth Hewitt [and others]
This volume is mainly concerned with landform and sediment associations in cold regions, and their transformations over time and space in response to changing environments. Most of the chapters adopt a landscape approach, with the goal of describing, interpreting and comparing regional landscapes. T...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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2002.
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| Series: | GeoJournal library ;
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Table of Contents:
- One Glacial and High Mountain Environments
- One Development of Landform and Sediment Assemblages at Maritime High-arctic Glaciers
- Two Proglacial and Paraglacial Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments in Transition
- Three Postglacial Landform and Sediment Associations in a Landslide-fragmented River System: the TransHimalayan Indus Streams, Central Asia
- Four Fluvial Sediment Transfer in Cold Regions
- Two Cold Lowland and Coastal Environments
- Five Where on Earth is Permafrost? Boundaries and Transitions
- Six Typical Aspects of Cold Regions Shorelines
- Seven Landform Development in an Arctic Delta: The Roles of Snow, Ice and Permafrost
- Eight The Search for an Arctic Coasta Karren Model in Norway and Spitzbergen
- Nine Sedimentary Characteristics, Biological Zonation and Physical Processes of the Tidal Flats of Iqaluit, Nunavut.