Hillslope Processes in Cold Environments: An Illustration of High-Latitude Mountain and Hillslope Processes and Forms

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages 320-336

  Goodfellow, B W ^a   Boelhouwers, J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical weathering; Climate change; High latitude; Hillslope; Mass wasting; Paraglacial; Periglacial; Permafrost; Physical weathering; Regolith; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887458440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00181-0     Document Type: Chapter

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