Database of pleistocene periglacial featuresin France: description of the online version

• Published in: Quaternaire
• Main Authors: Andrieux, Eric, Bertran, Pascal, Antoine, Pierre, Deschodt, Laurent, Lenoble, Arnaud, Coutard, Sylvie, Ajas, Aurelie, Borderie, Quentin, Coutard, Jean-Pierre, Didierjean, Francois, Dousteyssier, Bertrand, Ferrier, Catherine, Gardère, Philippe, Gé, Thierry, Liard, Morgane, Locht, Jean‑luc, Naton, Henri-Georges, Rué, Mathieu, Sitzia, Luca, van Vliet-Lanoë, Brigitte, Vernet, Gérard
• Other Authors: De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Conseil général d'Eure-et-Loir. Service de l'archéologie (CG28), Conseil général d'Eure-et-Loir, Centre de Géomorphologie du CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Histoire "Espaces et Cultures" (CHEC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP), GeoArchEon SARL, Paléotime, Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Domaines Océaniques (LDO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers-Institut d'écologie et environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale (GEOLAB), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IR SHS UNILIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université Clermont Auvergne 2017-2020 (UCA 2017-2020 )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Ice; permafrost; wedge*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02346049; https://hal.science/hal-02346049/document; https://hal.science/hal-02346049/file/Andrieux%20et%20al%202016%20-%20quaternaire-7717.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.7717

International audience A database of Pleistocene periglacial features in France has been compiled from a review of academic literature and reports of rescue archaeology, the analysis of aerial photographs and new field surveys. Polygons, soil stripes, ice-wedge pseudomorphs, sand wedges and composite wedge pseudomorphs are included in the database together with their geographic coordinates, geological context, description and associated references. It is hoped that this database, which aim is to be integrated in broader studies, will stimulate further work on past permafrost reconstruction and will favour greater understanding of the climatic events that lead to the formation of the periglacial features. The database is available online on the AFEQ-CNF INQUA website (https://afeqeng.hypotheses.org/487). A folder that contains photographs and sketches of the features is also available on request.