The glacial origins of relict ‘pingos’, Wales, UK

Ramparted depressions (doughnut-shaped debris-cored ridges with peat- and/or sediment-filled central basins) are commonly perceived to represent the relict collapsed forms of permafrost ground-ice mounds (i.e. pingos or lithalsas). In Wales, UK, ramparted depressions of Late Pleistocene age have bee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Neil Ross, Peter Brabham, Charles Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-12-01
Series:Annals of Glaciology
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0260305519000405/type/journal_article