New perspectives on Holocene landscape development in the southern English chalklands: The upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. French ◽  
H. Lewis ◽  
R. Scaife ◽  
M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Development

Landscape development in response to climatic change during Oxygen Isotope Stage 5 in the southern Siberian loess region

Boreas ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiri Chlachula ◽  
Rob Kemp ◽  
Catherine Jessen ◽  
Adrian Palmer ◽  
Phillip Toms
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Landscape Development ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Stage ◽  
Loess Region

Environmental changes and human impact on landscape development in the Upper Rhine region

Erdkunde ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Mäckel ◽  
Arne Friedmann ◽  
Dirk Sudhaus
Keyword(s):  
Human Impact ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Landscape Development ◽  
Upper Rhine

A geoarchaeological case study in the chora of Pergamon, western Turkey, to reconstruct the late Holocene landscape development and settlement history

2015 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 62-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Schneider ◽  
Albrecht Matthaei ◽  
Marlen Schlöffel ◽  
Cornelius Meyer ◽  
Mario Kronwald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Landscape Development ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Settlement History

scholarly journals Depositional Landforming Processes at the Snouts of Five Surging Glaciers in Vestspitsbergen (Abstract only)

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 115-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Croot
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Landscape Development ◽  
Maximum Extension ◽  
The Core ◽  
Polar Environment ◽  
Compressive Flow ◽  
Ice Leads

Recent work by Clapperton (1975) proposes that the rapid rates of advance experienced by glaciers which surge may lead to enhanced debris incorporation, increased compressive flow near the glacier snout at the point of maximum extension, and to the upward translation and vertical stacking of debris near the glacier snout and margin. Five glaciers in Spitsbergen (Battyebreen, Holmströmbreen, Lisbetbreen, Vonbreen, Elnabreen) display morphological features which are widely accepted as being diagnostic of surging glaciers.Results of detailed observations regarding the nature, distribution, melt-out, and reworking of englacial debris at Battyebreen are presented. Basally derived till is brought to the surface of the glacier in narrow lateral and terminal belts, no more than 100 m wide. Within this zone, (i.e. up-valley from the snout and towards the valley centre) the ice is debris-free with the exception of small amounts of en-glacial debris which form the core of lobate medial moraines. Differential ablation of debris-free and debris-rich ice leads to the production of a topographic basin within which melt-out and reworking processes occupy restricted locations, as follows. Immediately inside the encircling melt-out till, a zone of flow tills is found. Melt streams are located at the foot of, the flow till-mantled slope, producing narrow (150 m wide) outwash trains, which merge into deltas. The central area of the topographic basin is occupied by a supraglacial lake.Observations of the remaining four locations confirm that other glaciers in the vicinity, which display similar characteristics associated with surging, are developing a stagnant-ice zone of identical appearance. The pattern of processes observed at Battyebreen is thus repeated at each site.A simple model of depositional landscape development is proposed for surging valley glaciers in a sub-polar environment.

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