| Título : | Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology | | Tipo de documento: | Libro | | Autores: | Clifford Embleton, Autor ; Cuchlaine A.M. King, Autor | | Editorial: | Edinburg : Edward Arnold | | Fecha de publicación: | 1969 | | Número de páginas: | 608 p. | | Idioma : | Inglés | | Palabras clave: | Geomorfología Glaciares | | Clasificación: | 551.4 | | Resumen: | 20120124001148 | | Nota de contenido: |
Basic concepts of glaciation and glacier behaviour:
Ice ages and world glaciation
Glacier régimes
The pysical properties of ice and types of glacier
Ice motion
Some indirect effects of pleistocene glaciation
Glacial and fluvioglacial erosion:
Small-scale features of glacial and fluvioglacial erosion
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
Glacial and fluvioglacial deposition:
General considerations of glacial and fluvioglacial deposition
Drumnlins
Moraines
Fluvioglacial ice-contact features: eskers and kames
Ice stagnation features
Proglacial features
Glacial lakes and lacustrine deposits
Periglacial geomorphology:
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
| | Tema Principal / Disciplina : | Geología | | Link: | https://www.bfa.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar/id/1409 |
|
