Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2016 Tundra and polar desert environments characterize the islands of the Western Canadian Arctic. Prince Patrick Island is a typical polar semi-desert; Banks Island illustrates the intermixing of polar-desert and tundra environments.
H. M. French
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Correlation between vegetation pattern and microtopography in periglacial areas of the Central Alps
Pirineos: Revista de Ecología de Montaña, 1990 [es] Se han analizado los modelos de distribución de especies vegetales en microformas periglaciares pertenecientes al tipo de suelos estructurales en el Ortles-Cevedale (Lombardía, Italia).
Renato Gerdol, Claudio Smiraglia
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The chronostratigraphy of Late Pleistocene glacial and periglacial aeolian activity in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, NWT, Canada [PDF]
, 2006 Aeolian periglacial sand deposits are common in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands of Western Arctic Canada. Regionally extensive and thick aeolian sand-sheet deposits have been observed in two major stratigraphic settings: within a sand unit characterized by ...
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Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada [PDF]
, 2012 Terrestrial permafrost archives along the Yukon Coastal Plain (northwest Canada) have recorded landscape development and environmental change since the Late Wisconsinan at the interface of unglaciated Beringia (i.e.
Fritz, Michael +6 more
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Snow cover as a morphogenic agent determining ground climate, landforms and runoff in the Valdecebollas massif, Cantabrian Mountains [PDF]
, 2020 Producción CientíficaLas nevadas son importantes eventos meteorológicos que afectan al ambiente físico de la Montaña Cantábrica. Este trabajo analiza los efectos sobre varios elementos como el relieve, el clima del suelo y la hidrología nival. El régimen
Pisabarro Pérez, Alfonso
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Cartographie géomorphologique appliquée au périglaciaire [PDF]
, 1963 The writer proposes a simple and practical set of symbols for use in the preparation of periglacial maps. These maps can he constructed rapidly and at modest cost.In a preliminary section dealing with cartographie principles, the writer proposes that ...
Hamelin, Louis-Edmond
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Ground temperatures, landforms and processes in an Atlantic mountain. Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) [PDF]
, 2016 This research was supported by the Formación de Profesorado Universitario FPU13/05837 (Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte) program, by the OAPN 053/2010 (Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales, MAGRAMA) project, by the I + D + I CGL2015-68144-R ...
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Quaternary periglacial silicifications in the Paris Basin
BSGF - Earth Sciences BulletinIn this paper, and in previous works, quartzites within the Sable de Fontainebleau are clearly shown to occur only near outcrops in Plio-Pleistocene plateau landscapes and are related to groundwater flows.
Thiry Médard, Milnes Anthony
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Characteristics and Climatic Indications of Ice-Related Landforms at Low Latitudes (0°–±30°) on Mars
Remote SensingThe deposition and evolution of ice-rich materials on Martian surfaces offer valuable insights into climatic evolution and the potential driving forces behind global climate change.
Yan Zhou +3 more
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Uludağ’da Girland ve Çember Oluşumları
Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2011 Alpine zone of the Uludağ is under the influence of periglacial processes and landforms. As a result of this processes, garlands and circles have appeared to be dominant landforms. Because of the general direction of the Uludağ massif, the summit portion
Murat Türkeş, Muhammed Zeynel Öztürk
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