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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Landscapes of transition
    sub title: landform assemblages and transformations in cold regions
  name:
    name part: Hewitt, Kenneth.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Conference proceedings.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)
  abstract: This volume is mainly concerned with landform and sediment associations in cold regions, and their transformations over time and space in response to changing environments. Most of the chapters adopt a landscape approach, with the goal of describing, interpreting and comparing regional landscapes. The emphasis here is on landscapes that are formed or constrained by cold conditions. In particular, we look at landform morphology, earth surface processes and sediments reflecting the presence of frost, ice and melt water, and the influence upon landscape of cold-adapted plants and animals. The notion of 'transition' is employed to address the ways in which environmental changes are uniquely expressed through adjustments in landforms and earth surface processes. It is shown that geomorphic transitions have, or tend to, generate their own temporal and spatial shape. They involve mechanisms or patterns of adjustment distinct from, and not readily obvious in, the mere chronology of, say, climate change or tectonics. Examples are discussed from high mountain and glacierized environments, from cold lowlands and coasts. Appropriate theoretical concerns are addressed in relation to the slope stability and extreme mass movement events, paraglacial regimes, changing distributions of permafrost, delta and other cold coastal development.
  note: edited by Kenneth Hewitt [and others].
  note: Based on revised papers presented at a symposium held at Wilfrid Laurier University, Nov. 1999.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
    geographic: Cold Regions
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Glacial landforms
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Geography (general)
  subject:
    topic: Geomorphology
  subject:
    topic: Glacial landforms
  subject:
    geographic: Cold regions
  classification: GB641 .L36 2002eb
  classification: 551.41/0911
  related item:
    title info:
      title: GeoJournal library ; 68
  identifier: 9789401720373 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401720371 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NUI
    record creation date: 130605
    record change date: 20260420203954.9
    record identifier: in00003565018
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng