A 35‐Year Record of Solifluction in a Maritime Periglacial Environment

ABSTRACT Eight segmented PVC columns (Rudberg pillars) inserted vertically in the treads of three vegetation‐covered (‘turf‐banked’) solifluction lobes at altitudes of 912–1031 m in the Fannich Mountains of NW Scotland were exhumed 35 years after insertion, and downslope displacement of each segment...

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Published in:Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Main Author: Ballantyne, Colin K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1761
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