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- John A. Matthews
- Richard A. Shakesby
- Mark S. Berrisford
- Lindsey J. McEwen
Abstract
Several types of periglacial patterned ground have developed rapidly in the frost‐susceptible sediments of degraded ‘annual’ moraines deposited between c. AD 1930 and 1973 on the glacier foreland of Styggedalsbreen, western Jotunheimen, Norway. Detailed mapping of patterned ground phenomena provides the basis for a micro‐scale, landscape‐ecological (geoecological) approach to the distribution, formation and stabilization of patterned ground. Sorted nets, sorted stripes, surface cracks, solifluction lobes, boulder‐cored frost boils, ploughing boulders, and surficial colluvial sand and gravel deposits occupy distinct micro‐topographic site types influenced by slope, exposure, drainage conditions and vegetation. Moisture availability appears to be the most important physical environmental control on both the distribution of the patterned ground and present levels of activity. Patterned ground formation and stabilization on glacier forelands are seen as partly exogenous and paraglacial, rather than entirely endogenous and developmental. Vegetation development can be a cause or an effect in the formation of particular types of patterned ground which, even in relatively simple glacier‐foreland landscapes, may involve complex geoecological interactions. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Plusieurs types de sols structurés périglaciaires sont apparus rapidement dans les sédiments des moraines ‘annuelles’ dégradées qui ont été déposées entre AD 1930 et 1973 au front du glacier Styggedalsbreen, dans l'ouest du Jotunheimen, en Norvège. La cartographie détaillée de ces sols structurés a permis une étude géoécologique de la distribution, de la formation et de la stabilisation de ces sols structurés. Des réseaux triés, des sols striés triés, des fissures de surface, des lobes de solifluxion, des ‘frost boils’ avec des blocs comme noyaux, des blocs labourant et des dépôts superficiels de sables colluviaux et de cailloux occupent des sites micro‐topographiques distincts influencés par la pente, l'exposition, les conditions de drainage et la végétation. L'humidité disponible est le facteur d'environnement physique le plus important qui détermine à la fois la distribution des sols structurés et leurs niveaux d'activité actuelle. La formation des sols structurés et la stabilisation de la marge du glacier sont considérées comme partiellement exogènes et paraglaciaires plutôt qu'entièrement endogènes et en développement. Le type et la croissance de la végétation peuvent être une cause ou un effet de la formation de types particuliers de sols structurés qui, même dans des paysages de bordure glaciaire, peuvent déterminer des interactions géoécologiques complexes. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Suggested Citation
John A. Matthews & Richard A. Shakesby & Mark S. Berrisford & Lindsey J. McEwen, 1998.
"Periglacial patterned ground on the Styggedalsbreen glacier foreland, Jotunheimen, southern Norway: micro‐topographic, paraglacial and geoecological controls,"
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 9(2), pages 147-166, April.
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RePEc:wly:perpro:v:9:y:1998:i:2:p:147-166
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199804/06)9:23.0.CO;2-9
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