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Recent research on the nature, origin and climatic relations of blocky and stratified slope deposits

Henk van Steijn

The Netherlands Centre for Geo-ecological Research, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands, h.vansteijn{at}geog.uu.nl

Jan Boelhouwers

Physical Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, S 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden

Stuart Harris

Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Bernard Hétu

Module de Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec G5L 3A1, Canada

A selection of subaerial slope processes is discussed together with the morphological and sedimentological traces that are left by the processes. Emphasis is on mass transfers related to (coarse) blocky slopes and to scree accumulations, either on steep or on gentle slopes. New developments in the interpretation of more or less clearly stratified slope deposits are discussed in the light of the findings of research focusing on present-day process-form (process-material) relationships. The question of the climatic (and, more specifically, the periglacial) significance of the different processes and their morpho-sedimentary expression is a returning theme in this paper. It is concluded that many deposits are formed by azonal processes, although their activity (in terms of magnitude-frequency combinations) is often relatively high under periglacial conditions. Some of the deposits point to (cold-climate) extreme events. This especially is the case for frost-coated clast flows, aeolian transport of large platy clasts, and to a lesser extent debris flows.

Key Words: blocky slopes • periglacial • scree • subaerial slope processes • talus

Progress in Physical Geography, Vol. 26, No. 4, 551-575 (2002)
DOI: 10.1191/0309133302pp352ra
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