Periglacial phenomena in the oases and the mountains of the Enderby Land and the Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica)
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https://doi.org/10.26485/BP/1969/19/10Keywords:
Preliminary report, gelivation, honeycomb formsAbstract
This report presents the preliminary results of field investigations devoted especially to cryogeological problems. From the cryogeological point of view the regions of oases and mountains under consideration in the Enderby Land and the Dronning Maud Land represent an ideal area where in various zones and various types of relief, cryogenic forms and processes (occurring in an extremely cold and arid nival climate) can be studied. Within the framework of the investigation of gelivation processes, especially movements of material, various types of ice were recorded in addition to ice in glacier bodies. Gelivation generally takes the form of congelifraction; the resultant forms are crevasses up to several tens of meters in width, cracks, crashed down blocks up to congelifraction deluvia. Microgelivation was studied together with eolization on honeycomb forms. The development and distribution of honeycomb relief is of great importance in these areas, as it can be used in genetico-stratigraphic estimates of the sediments, the weathered rock mantle, and in the study of the paleogeographic development of the erosional (denudational) relief.
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