Two images of an eroding permafrost coast in northern Alaska -- where lenses of ground ice are melting out, causing overhangs and catastrophic collapses.
I referred to this long and rather comprehensive article on a blog post not so long ago -- but I had not realised that those nice people at Researchgate have made a digitised version of it. So it is now available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262414487_Coastal_Geomorphology_of_High_Latitudes
If you want to check out any matters relating to coastal environments, sea-level and isostatic effects, erosional and depositional features, or the the effects of ground ice and sea ice, take a look. Here is a list of the contents.
The 132 pp research review by David Sugden and myself was intended for a non-specialist readership, and although it was written a long time ago (1975) -- before climate change became a massive issue -- it still contains a good deal of relevant material. Enjoy!
A superb set of raised strandlines in one of the fjords of Svalbard.
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PS -- oops -- sorry! I discovered that I did a post on this research review back in 2014. Had clean forgotten. Never mind -- good to give folks a reminder as to what is available, now and then!
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