Was the cirque glaciation of Wales time-transgressive, or not?

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 28, Issue , 1999, Pages 33-39

  Evans, Ian S ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRQUE; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIATION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 0033396494     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756499781821652     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ballantyne, C. K. and C. Harris. 1994. The periglaciation of Great Britain. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
2. Barclay, W. J. 1989. Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, II: the country around Abergavenny. Third edition. London, H. M. Stationery Office. National Environment Research Council. British Geological Survey. (Memoir for England and Wales Sheet 232.)
3. Bennett, M. 1990. The cwms of Snowdonia: a morphometric analysis. London, Queen Mary and Westfield College. Department of Geography. (Research Paper 2.)
4. Bowen, D. Q. 1970. South-east and central South Wales. In Lewis, C. A., ed. The glaciations of Wales and adjoining regions. London, Longman, 373-426.
5. Bowen, D. Q. 1982. Surface morphology. In Carter, H. and H. M. Griffiths, eds. National atlas of Wales. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, Plate 1.3.
6. Campbell, S. and D. Q. Bowen. 1989. Quaternary of Wales. Peterborough, Nature Conservancy Council. (Geological Conservation Review N.C.C. A4.1.)
7. Cave, R. and B. Hains. 1986. Geology of the country between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth. London, H. M. Stationery Office. National Environment Research Council. British Geological Survey. (Memoir for England and Wales Sheet 163.)
8. Ellis-Gruffydd, I. D. 1977. Late Devensian glaciation in the upper Usk basin. Cambria, 4(1), 46-55.
9. Evans, I. S. 1990. Climatic effects on glacier distribution across the southern coast mountains, B.C., Canada. Ann. Glaciol., 14, 58-64.
10. Evans, I. S. 1997. Process and form in the erosion of glaciated mountains. In Stoddart, D. R., ed. Process and form in geomorphology. London, Routledge, 145-174.
11. Evans, I. S. and N. J. Cox. 1974. Geomorphometry and the operational definition of cirques. Area, Institute of British Geographers, 6(2), 150-153.
12. Evans, I. S. and N. J. Cox. 1995. The form of glacial cirques in the English Lake District, Cumbria. Z. Geomorphol., 39(2), 175-202.
13. Gray, J. M. 1982. The last glaciers (L. Lomond Advance) in Snowdonia, N. Wales. Geol. J., 17(2), 111-133.
14. Harrison, S., E. Anderson and D. G. Passmore. 1998. A small glacial cirque basin on Exmoor, Somerset. Proc. Geol. Assoc., 109(2), 149-158.
15. Lewis, C. A. 1970. The glaciations of the Brecon Beacons. Brycheiniog, 14, 97-120.
16. Østrem, G., N. Haakensen and T. Eriksson. 1981. The glaciation level in southern Alaska. Geogr. Ann., 63A(3-4), 251-260.
17. Porter, S. C. 1964. Composite Pleistocene snow line of Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range, Washington. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 75(5), 477-482.
18. Robertson, D.W. 1988. Aspects of the Late-Glacial and Flandrian environmental history of the Brecon Beacons, Fforest Fawr, Black Mountain and Abergavenny Black Mountains, S. Wales. (Ph.D. thesis, University of Wales, Lampeter.)
19. Sale, C. J. 1970. Cirque distribution in Great Britain. (M.Sc. thesis, University of London.)
20. Seddon, B. 1957. Late-glacial cwm glaciers in Wales. J. Glaciol., 3(22), 94-99.
21. Shakesby, R. A. 1990. Landforms of glacial and fluvioglacial deposition. In Stephens, N., ed. Natural landscapes of Britain from the air. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 78-113.
22. Shakesby, R. A. andJ. A. Matthews. 1996. Glacial activity and paraglacial landsliding in the Devensian Lateglacial: evidence from Craig Cerriggleisiad and Fan Dringarth, Fforest Fawr (Brecon Beacons), S. Wales. Geol. J., 31(2), 143-157.
23. Sumner, G. 1997. Wales. In Wheeler, D. and J. Mayes, eds. Regional climates of the British Isles. London, Routledge, 131-157.
24. Unwin, D. J. 1973. The distribution and orientation of corries in N. Snowdonia, Wales. Inst. Br. Geogr. Trans., 58, 85-97.
25. Walker, M. J. C. 1980. Late-glacial history of the Brecon Beacons, S. Wales. Nature, 287(5778), 133-135.
26. Watson, E. 1968. The periglacial landscape of the Aberystwyth region. In Bowen, E. G., H. Carter and J. A. Taylor, eds. Geography at Aberystwyth. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 35-49.
27. Watson, E. and S. Watson. 1977. Nivation forms and deposits in Cwn Ystwyth. In Watson, E., ed. Mid and North Wales. Guidebook for excursion C9, INQUA X Congress. Norwich, Geo Abstracts, 24-27.
28. Woodland, A. W. and W. B. Evans. 1964. Geology of the South Wales Coalfield, IV: the country around Pontypridd and Maesteg. Third edition. London, H.M. Stationery Office. National Environment Research Council. British Geological Survey. (Memoir for England and Wales Sheet 248.)