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Great Britain
COLINKJBALLANTYNE
Senior Lecturer in Geography and Geology, University of St Andrews
CHARLESHARRIS
Senior Lecturer in Geology, University of Wales, Cardiff
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
Preface i x
PARTI: Introduction and context 1
1 Introduction 3
The development of periglacial research in
Great Britain 4
Approaches to synthesis: the organisation of
this book 7
2 Quaternary environmental change in Great Britain 11
The Anglian glacial stage 11
Glaciation between the Hoxnian and
Ipswichian Interglacials ( Wolstonian ) 14
The Early and Middle Devensian 14
The Late Devensian 1: The Dimlington Stadial 15
The Late Devensian 2: The Windermere
Interstadial 17
The Late Devensian 3: The Loch Lomond
Stadial 18
The Flandrian Interglacial 21
Present-day environmental conditions on
British mountains 22
Periglacial environments in space and time 24
3 Periglacial environments 27
Periglacial climates _ 27
Vegetation 28
Soils 29
Fauna 30
Permafrost 31
PART 2: The perigiaciation of lowland Britain 37
4 Ice-wedge casts and relict tundra polygons 39
Ice-wedges, sand wedges and tundra polygons 39
Mechanism of wedge casting and
characteristics of casts 44
Recognition of permafrost wedge casts 46
Permafrost wedge casts and tundra
polygons in Great Britain 47
The stratigraphy of wedge casts and relict
tundra polygons 53
The significance of wedge casts and
polygonal crop marks 62
5 Pingos and related ground-ice phenomena 65
Characteristics of active pingos 65
Other ice-cored mounds 68
The climatic significance of pingos and
related ground-ice features 70
Thermokarst depressions 71
Morphological evidence of Pleistocene
pingos and related cryogenic mounds 73
Evidence for Pleistocene pingos and
related cryogenic mounds in Britain 74
Large thermokarst depressions 80
The significance of ground-ice
phenomena in Britain: an evaluation 82
6 Active layer processes: cryoturbation
and patterned ground 85
Active layer processes 85
Patterned ground 89
Cryoturbation 94
Quaternary patterned ground in lowland Britain 96
Cryoturbation structures in lowland Britain 99
Pedological evidence for soil freezing and
permafrost 109
Summary 112
7 Periglacial mass wasting and slope evolution
in lowland Britain 113
The nature of thawing soils 113
Processes of periglacial mass wasting 114
Slow periglacial mass movements 114
Rapid mass movements 118
Ground-ice slumps 118
Permafrost creep 119
Slopewash 120
Periglacial slope evolution in lowland Britain 120
Periglacial slope deposits 121
Granular head deposits derived from
nonargillaceous rocks 122
Clay-rich head deposits 130
Granulometry and geotechnical properties
of head deposits 134
Thaw-induced periglacial landslides in
bedrock 135
Relict ground-ice slumps 136
Slope evolution 136
Cambering and valley bulging 137
Periglacial slope processes and landscape
evolution: concluding comments 140
8 Lowland landscape modification by fluvial
and aeolian processes 141
Periglacial rivers and river valleys 141
Pleistocene fluvial landforms and deposits 147
vii
viii CONTENTS
Wind action 155
The significance of periglacial fluvial and
aeolian activity 160
PART 3: The periglaciation of upland Britain 161
9 Frost weathering and mountain-top detritus 163
Periglacial weathering 163
Periglacial weathering in upland Britain 166
Mountain-top detritus 173
Upland tors 178
Periglacial trimlines 182
Mountain-top detritus and the distribution
of periglacial landforms 187
The significance of mountain-top detritus
on British mountains 190
10 Patterned ground on British mountains 193
Sorted patterned ground on British uplands 193
Nonsorted patterned ground in upland Britain 199
Summary 203
11 Solifluction landforms in upland Britain 205
Valley-floor solifluction terraces 205
Relict solifluction phenomena on the upper
slopes of British mountains 208
Active solifluction phenomena 214
Solifluction landforms in upland Britain:
problems and potential 218
12 Talus slopes and related landforms 219
Rockfall talus slopes 219
Avalanche-modified talus 226
Debris flow activity 227
Protalus ramparts 236
Protalus rock glaciers 240
Talus and related landforms: summary 244
13 Nival, fluvial, aeolian and coastal features 245
Nivation and cryoplanation 245
The geomorphic role of running water 250
The action of wind 255
Shoreline erosion under periglacial conditions 267
PART 4: Periglacial environments 273
14 Past and present periglacial environments 275
Periglacial environments during the
Dimlington Stadial 278
The periglacial environment of the
Loch Lomond Stadial 286
The present-day periglacial environment
of upland Britain 292
Themes and prospects 297
References 299
Index 325
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