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Periglacial landforms
You should be able to describe and explain the formation of various periglacial landforms including
• Tors• Blockfields• Pingos• Ice wedges• Patterned ground• Talus• Solifluction lobes
Patterned ground
• Ice Wedges
Describe and explain the formation of open and closed system Pingos
Periglacial landformsPatterned ground
Open system pingos
Closed system pingos
Solifluction sheets and lobes
Tors Ice wedge polygons
Nivation hollows
Talus (scree)
Blockfields
Key features (size, shape, appearance)
Processes involved
Explanation of how created
Located Example
http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/environments/land/land_frame.htm
Open system pingos
Large domes up to 50m high and 300m across. Circular in shape with a core of ice and surface of soil.
Freeze Thaw, Capillary actionFormation of Ice lenses
Open system pingos occur in valley bottoms where water moves to the base of the valley during the thaw season when the active layer has thawed. When temperature drops ice lenses can form in this location. Water migrates to these lenses by capillary action. On contact with the ice lenses the water freezes, swelling the size of the lense.Over time this will swell the size of the land surface to create round hills called pingos. When the pingo becomes too large cracks appear on the surface. This exposes the ice to the sun and melting occurs. The pingo collapses leaving a lake (ognip) surrounded by a ridge or rampart.
East Greenland
Locate your case studies of landforms on the map below
Name the features on the diagram
Attempt question 5 and 7 on page 139 of WaughResearch question 8