1. Learning destination: understand what permafrost, frost heave, groundwater freezing, nivation and solifluction are and what landforms they create Routes: Identify, describe…

Slide 1GLOBAL WARMING Andrew Goudie St Cross College Oxford GLOBAL WARMING - AN UPDATE Slide 2 OBJECTIONS If warming is taking place, it is due to solar activity Satellite…

1. Global Warming: Global Hazards 2. Global Warming and Hazards Droughts and dunes and dust Hurricanes Permafrost degradation Ground subsidence Glacier retreat Sea-level…

1. M. Lousada1, M. Jorge3 , C. Lira 1, J. Saraiva1,2 , P. Pina1, L. Bandeira11CERENA/IST, Lisboa, Portugal.2 UNIS, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. 3 CEG/IGOT, Lisboa, Portugal…

1. Periglacial areas You should be able to describe and explain the different locations of continuous, discontinuous and sporadic permafrost You should be able to describe…

Geotechnical Aspects of... 163JKAU: Earth Sci., vol. 15, pp.163-179 (2004 A.D. / 1425 A.H.) 163 Geotechnical Aspects of Loess in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia AMMAR AMIN and KHALID…

EROSIONAL PROCESSES T Parson â Allerton Grange Abrasion Abrasion is scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport in wind,…

Eiszeitalter u. Gegenwart Band 23/24 Seite 306-320 Ãhringen/Württ., 15. Oktober 1973 2. The Holocene of the Former Periglacial Areas by W O L F G A N G S C H I R M E…