On high-altitude and high- latitude frost environments

• Main Author: Hansen, Christel Dorothee
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Rhodes University 2018
• Subjects: Frost > Drakensberg Mountains; Frost > Prince Edward Islands > Marion Island; Frost > Antarctica > Queen Maud Land; Climatic geomorphology > Southern Hemisphere; Permafrost > Southern Hemisphere; Periglacial processes > Southern Hemisphere; Frost environments > Southern Hemisphere; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Queen Maud Land; Robertskollen; Slettfjell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Marion Island; permafrost; polar desert; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/62383; http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:28169

Frost environments occur throughout the world, with associated processes occurring across climatic zones. Climatic geomorphology proposes that climatic zones, largely derived from annual average air temperature and precipitation values, have specific landforms and processes active within that zone....