Climate and material controls on periglacial soil processes: Toward improving periglacial climate indicators

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 356-365

  Matsuoka, Norikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ice wedge.; Paleoclimate; Periglacial; Permafrost; Solifluction; Thermal contraction cracking

Indexed keywords

ICE WEDGES; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIGLACIAL; SOLIFLUCTION; THERMAL CONTRACTION CRACKING;

ICE; MINERALS; PERMAFROST; THAWING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIGLACIAL LANDFORM; PERMAFROST; SOLIFLUCTION;

EID: 79952364514     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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