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Abstract Environmental reconstructions utilising the evidence of relic or fossil periglacial features are necessarily based on the nature and present distribution of comparable active features. The most critical features are those indicative of permafrost, because of the negative mean annual tempera...

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Published in:Journal of Quaternary Science
Main Authors: French, Hugh M., Koster, Eduard A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1988
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3390030102
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Summary:Abstract Environmental reconstructions utilising the evidence of relic or fossil periglacial features are necessarily based on the nature and present distribution of comparable active features. The most critical features are those indicative of permafrost, because of the negative mean annual temperatures required for permafrost, whereas many other cold climate features are much less informative as to temperature implications. (Washburn, Geocryology, 1980, 279).