Landscapes of Transition

This volume had its origins in an international symposium organised by the Cold Regions Research Centre, and held at Wilfrid Laurier University in November, 1999. The chapters are modified from a selection of the papers at the meeting, and reflect reviews and revisions in light of discussions then. The original idea for the meeting was to address certain questions that the organisers were encountering in their own work, and that we felt had received limited attention in the recent literature. The two broad issues we wanted to address were: the complex associations of actual landforms and processes in cold regions, and how the almost universal legacies of past, different cold environments of the late Quaternary affect these landscapes in the present. The former involves the problem of identifying landform and sediment complexes, and the interrelations of relevant processes. We sought to identify this in terms oflandform and sediment assemblages appropriate to regional and field-orientedconcerns.

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One Glacial and High Mountain Environments.- One Development of Landform and Sediment Assemblages at Maritime High-arctic Glaciers.- Two Proglacial and Paraglacial Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments in Transition.- Three Postglacial Landform and Sediment Associations in a Landslide-fragmented River System: the TransHimalayan Indus Streams, Central Asia.- Four Fluvial Sediment Transfer in Cold Regions.- Two Cold Lowland and Coastal Environments.- Five Where on Earth is Permafrost? Boundaries and Transitions.- Six Typical Aspects of Cold Regions Shorelines.- Seven Landform Development in an Arctic Delta: The Roles of Snow, Ice and Permafrost.- Eight The Search for an Arctic Coasta Karren Model in Norway and Spitzbergen.- Nine Sedimentary Characteristics, Biological Zonation and Physical Processes of the Tidal Flats of Iqaluit, Nunavut.