His analysis of the role of periglacial processes in fashioning terrain character in southern England is now largely vindicated and, hence, merits the status of a benchmark paper.
As the first stage of the monitoring network, a model experimental site is under construction in Svalbard where a variety of periglacial processes coexist in a small area, to test and compare various techniques to be standardized.
A more dominant role for periglacial processes in further bevelling elevated, low relief, non-glacial surface remnants in otherwise glacially eroded landscapes is therefore indicated.
Aalto, J., Harrison, S. & Luoto, M. Statistical modelling predicts almost complete loss of major periglacial processes in Northern Europe by 2100.
Under the predicted global warming, the 'greening' of arctic and subarctic regions may, therefore, decrease and also increase the activity of the periglacial processes in sparsely vegetated terrain.
Since the last decades of the XIX century the temperature has increased ∼0.93°C leading to a decrease of the intensity of periglacial processes in the high lands of the Sierra Nevada.
Glacial and periglacial processes in polar regions act as morphogenetic agents for landscape sculpting providing landforms and deposits that represent valuable records for investigating the amplitude of key phases of Cenozoic glacial history.
Periglacial processes in seasonal freeze-thaw conditions, both present and past, have produced sorted stone stripes and solifluction lobes and sheets on the summit ridge of Helvellyn.
Towards the end of the last glacial cycle, repeated re-advances of valley glaciers in the European Alps combined with periglacial processes led to the formation of a variety of climate-related landforms.
In the oceanic LRE higher humidity enhanced the periglacial processes which increased erosion, but also led to preservation in accumulative positions.
