After the ice: Lateglacial and Holocene landforms and landscape evolution in Scotland

ABSTRACT During Lateglacial cold periods, permafrost developed throughout Scotland, sediment-mantled slopes were extensively modified by solifluction and other forms of periglacial mass movement, large-scale sorted patterned ground formed on plateaux, and enhanced rockfall resulted in talus accumula...

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Published in:Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Main Author: BALLANTYNE, Colin K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2018
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175569101800004x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S175569101800004X