A Handbook on Periglacial Field Methods
Introduction
A handbook hosted by the International Permafrost Association (IPA) 1999-2008, supported by UNIS, and carried out by the Working Group on Periglacial Processes and Environments
Co-chairs:Ole Humlum and Norikazu Matsuoka.
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Topics
(preliminary)
- Monitoring of ground thermal regime
- Shallow ground temperatures (Gonçalo Teles Vieira, Carla Mora and Miguel Ramos)
- Active-layer thickness and temperatures (F. E. Nelson and K. M. Hinkel)
- Permafrost temperatures
- Detection of Frozen Ground
- Geomorphological mapping with kinematic GPS (Gonçalo Teles Vieira, Miguel Ramos and Jorge Gárate)
- Thermal contraction cracking and ice wedge growth
- Processes of deflation
- Processes of patterned ground formation
- Seasonal frost mound formation
- Fluvial and lacustrine processes
- Chemical weathering
- Assessment of chemical denudation rates in cold environments (Achim A. Beylich et al.)
- Solifluction and frost creep
- Slopewash
- Thaw slumping
- Rockfall processes
- Frost heave
- Frost heave of soil(Norikazu Matsuoka)
- Bedrock heave
- Cold climate weathering (Norikazu Matsuoka)
- Frozen ground creep
- Permafrost creep
- Rock glacier movement
- Portable techniques for monitoring geotechnical properties relating to periglacial processes
- Porewater pressures
- Active layer total and unfrozen moisture content
- BTS measurements
- Oxygen isotope analysis
- Handling of samples for 18O-isotope analysis (Ole Humlum)
- Automated data acquisition
- Frost heave monitoring with strain gauges (Norikazu Matsuoka)
- Automatic digital cameras (Ole Humlum)
- Automatic meteorological stations for harsh environment
- Gemini temperature miniature data loggers (Ole Humlum)
- Gemini precipitation miniature data loggers (Ole Humlum)
- Gemini humidity miniature data loggers (Ole Humlum)
- Housing for miniature data loggers in the field (Ole Humlum)
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- Shallow ground temperatures(Gonçalo Teles Vieira, Carla Mora and Miguel Ramos)
- Active layer temperature monitoring in blocky material (Susanne Hanson)
