A 35-year record of solifluction in a maritime periglacial environment

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 was meas...

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Published in:Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
Main Author: Ballantyne, Colin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/a-35year-record-of-solifluction-in-a-maritime-periglacial-environment(24ef7aed-6f72-4629-924f-a8d61f245ce3).html
https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.1761