Garland-like solifluction formed in the Swiss National ParkPossible solifluction lobes in Acidalia Planitia on Mars as seen by HiRISESolifluction sheets near Eagle Summit, Alaska
Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity. This is the standard modern meaning of solifluction, which differs from the original meaning given to it by Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1906.[1][2]
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Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity. This is the...
medium, such as water, wind, or ice. Types of mass wasting include creep, solifluction, rockfalls, debris flows, and landslides, each with its own characteristic...
Periglaciation in the eastern Drakensberg and Lesotho Highlands produced solifluction deposits and blockfields; including blockstreams and stone garlands....
contraction generating cracks which eventually become ice wedges and solifluction – gradual movement of soil down the slope as it repeatedly freezes and...
Mountain slope deformation Soil slope deformation Rock slope deformation Soil creep Solifluction Note: the words in italics are placeholders. Use only one....
environment for the plant's offspring. Geocarpy is also linked with solifluction soils, where rapid thawing and freezing of surface soil causes almost...
the Falkland Islands and the Bjørnøya, where he first coined the term solifluction, influenced Walery Łoziński's creation of the concept of periglaciation...
classification Parent material decalcified unconsolidated materials including eolian, fluvial and lacustrine deposits, solifluction material and glacial till....
process called frost heaving is responsible for these features. Solifluction lobes – Solifluction lobes are formed when waterlogged soil slips down a slope...
is disputed. There is evidence of periglacial activity in the area. Solifluction appears to have created terraces on the north west flank of Mount Northcote...
avalanche-prone. During the short summer season all the slopes are prone to solifluction. Siberia portal "Protect Snow Leopard Habitat / Siberia". forests.org...
Miocene onward. The slopes of the Carphartian contain at some locations solifluction deposits. Iron, gold and silver were found in great quantities[vague]...
Congress, Paper No. 41-13, Saturday, July 26, 2003. Also: Late Holocene solifluction history reconstructed using tephrochronology Archived 2008-12-01 at the...
hill, is a Geological Conservation Review site. It provides evidence of solifluction (slow slipping of soil downhill due to repeated freezing and thawing)...
around 4,000 m (13,123 ft) where the ground has cracked to form hexagons. Solifluction occurs when the night temperatures freeze the soil before it thaws again...
deposits (i.e., glacial till), other processes that create diamictons are solifluction, landslides, debris flows, and turbiditic olistostromes. The term can...
mountain death rate in the world...." Arnold Heim: The Glaciation and Solifluction of Minya Gongkar. The Geographical Journal. Vol. 87, No. 5 (May, 1936)...
actual formation of stone runs involved five processes: weathering, solifluction, frost heaving, frost sorting, and washing. The stone runs are essentially...
Gelifluction, very similar to solifluction, is the seasonal freeze-thaw action upon waterlogging topsoils which induces downslope movement. Gelifluction...
fossiliferous Late and Middle Pleistocene floodplain, eolian, lake, and solifluction sediments cemented by permafrost. In the 1990s and 2000s, a Russian-German...
border. The summit of Thabana Ntlenyana is partially encircled by bogs. Solifluction deposits, blockfields, blockstreams and stone garlands can be found across...
the same drainage system. These landforms are created by earth flow ("solifluction"). They can also be former river terraces that are subsequently bisected...
beneath the snow patch. Weathered particles are moved downslope by creep, solifluction and rill wash. Over time, this leads to the formation of nivation hollows...
retreat forming extensive blockfields at the base of the bedrock areas. At a later stage, solifluction wears down summits and fills in topographic lows....
leached soil is most common. The podzols often occur on deep periglacial solifluction deposits down to 450 m. Alluvial floodplains have developed in the lower...
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