- In geomorphology,
cryoplanation or is a term used to both
describe and
explain the
formation of plains,
terraces and
pediments in
periglacial environments...
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periglaciationPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a
fallback Cryoplanation terrace –
Formation of plains,
terraces and
pediments in periglacial...
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addition to
these there are
planation surfaces proposed to be
formed by
cryoplanation,
marine processes,
areal glacial erosion and salt weathering. The term...
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formation of
flattish surfaces (peneplains) of
mixed origin (polygenetic).
Cryoplanation is a
variant of
pediplanation that is
restricted to cold climates. Atacama...
- 5350–5700 m on the
Argentine side. They are
solifluction surfaces,
cryoplanation surfaces,
block ramparts, and
patterned ground.
Permafrost is found...
- ground, blockfields,
solifluction landforms, blockstreams, tors and
cryoplanation terraces. The
occurrence or not of
these periglacial landforms depends...
- staurolite, andalusite, garnet, and sillimanite. The
summit features cryoplanation terraces and
frost cliffs formed during the
Pleistocene in a periglacial...
- Pleistocene,
under a
periglacial cold climate,
extensive stone runs,
cryoplanation terraces [pl], and
patterned ground formed in the
upper parts of the...
- replacement, and
retreat imply. An
earlier cyclical model on the
formation of
cryoplanation terraces was
proposed in 1943 by
Soviet scientists S.G. Boch and I.I...
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where cryogenic processes are active. The
terraces may be
referred as
cryoplanation terraces albeit this term is controversial. Each
scarp represent a flow...
