Solifluction Lobes on Niwot Ridge: Using Drones, Time-lapse Cameras, and Weather Data to Study Periglacial Features

• Main Author: Lanka, Dylan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2018
• Subjects: solifluction; frost creep; frost heave; periglacial; drone; weather; Applied Statistics; Climate; Geology; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Meteorology; Arctic; Benedict; Climate change; Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/honr_theses/1707; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2791&context=honr_theses

Solifluction, or gradual mass wasting as a result of freeze-thaw cycles, is a periglacial process that can cause significant changes to landscapes in the margins where glaciers once existed (Draebing and Eichel 2017; Matsuoka 2001). Frost creep is a major mechanism of solifluction in which soils hea...