Research Catalog

Title

Glacial and periglacial geomorphology [by] Clifford Embleton [and] Cuchlaine A. M. King.

Author

Embleton, Clifford.

Publication

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1968.

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Details

Additional Authors

King, Cuchlaine A. M.

Description

xv, 608 p. illus., maps.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Glacial landforms
• Frozen ground
• Periglacial processes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ice Ages and World Glaciation -- Glacier Regimes -- The Physical Properties of Ice and Types of Glacier -- Ice Motion -- Some Indirect Effects of Pleistocene Glaciation -- Small-Scale Features of Glacial and Fluvioglacial Erosion -- Glaciated Valleys -- Cirques -- Glacial Erosion in Areas of Low Relief -- Glaciation in Coastal Environments -- Quantitative Aspects of Glacial Erosion -- Erosion by Glacial Meltwater, and Glacial Diversion of Drainage -- General Considerations of Glacial and Fluvioglacial Depositions -- Drumlins -- Moraines -- Fluvioglacial Ice-Contact Features: Eskers and Kames -- Ice Stagnation Features -- Proglacial Features -- Glacial Lakes and Lacustrine Deposits -- The Periglacial Environment: An Introductory Survey -- Frozen Ground Phenomena -- Patterned Ground -- Periglacial Mass Movements and Slope Deposits -- Altiplanation, Tors, Blockfields, and Stone Streams -- The Action of Snow -- Periglacial Wind Action.

LCCN

^^^68020348^

OCLC

• 441427
• SCSB-10234206

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library