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Wind as a Geomorphic Agent in Cold Climates
Matti Seppälä
出版Cambridge University Press, 2004-06-17
主題Science / Environmental ScienceScience / Earth Sciences / GeographyScience / Earth Sciences / Geology
ISBN05215640699780521564069
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hts3BAhmU1AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Arctic is characterized by strangely eroded rocks, special wind-formed lakes, large sand dunes and immense loess deposits that owe their formation to aeolian processes controlled by snow cover and frost formation. Wind as a Geomorphic Agent in Cold Climates presents a detailed description and explanation of these wind-generated polar landforms. It includes numerous illustrations and photographs that will assist the reader in identifying and interpreting these features: both modern-day and those preserved in the geological record from earlier glacial periods. Unlike most aeolian geomorphology texts, which do not cover the high-latitude regions north and south of 60 degrees, this volume brings together important information from scattered literature sources concerning these cold environments.