Christine Embleton-Hamann

Geomorphology and global environmental change

Preface 1. Landscape, and landscape scale processes as the unfilled niche in the global environmental change debate: an introduction O. Slaymaker, T. Spencer and S. Dadson 2. Mountains O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann 3. Lakes and lake catchments K. Kashiwaya, O. Slaymaker and M. Church 4. Rivers M. Church, T. P. Burt, V. J. Galay and G. M. Kondolf 5. Estuaries, coastal marshes, tidal flats and coastal dunes D. J. Reed, R. Davidson-Arnott and G. M. E. Perillo 6. Beaches, cliffs and deltas M. J. F. Stive, P. J. Cowell and R. J. Nicholls 7. Coral reefs P. Kench, C. Perry and T. Spencer 8. Tropical rainforests R. P. D. Walsh and W. H. Blake 9. Tropical savannas M. E. Meadows and D. S. G. Thomas 10. Deserts N. Lancaster 11. Mediterranean M. Sala 12. Temperate forests and rangelands R. C. Sidle and T. P. Burt 13. Tundra and permafrost dominated taiga M.-F. Andre and O. Anisimov 14. Ice sheets and ice caps D. Sugden 15. Landscape, landscape scale processes and global environmental change: synthesis and new agendas for the twenty-first century T. Spencer, O. Slaymaker and C. Embleton-Hamann Index.

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THE AUSTRIAN ALPS AND PARAGLACIATION

Embleton‐Hamann, C. and Slaymaker, O., 2012. The Austrian Alps and paraglaciation. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 94, 7–16. doi:10.1111/j.1468‐0459.2011.00447.x ABSTRACT There is some confusion in the geomorphological literature with respect to the usage of the term ‘paraglacial’. We review the meaning of the term as defined in the Anglo‐Canadian literature between 1972 and the present. We then show that many of these ideas were implicit in the early‐twentieth‐century German literature but were never, to our knowledge, synthesized into an overarching framework for the study of post‐glacial glaciated landscapes. It was not until the end of the twentieth century that the paraglacial model was directly applied to the interpretation of the European Alps. The first decade of the twenty‐first century has seen a growing appreciation and some critique of that model in research in the Austrian Alps. The post‐glacial glaciated landscape is interpreted as a landscape of transition between the full glacial of the Last Glacial Maximum and the present almost entirely deglaciated landscape. It provides a conceptual framework and a challenge to determine exactly how far any specific glaciated landscape has evolved in response to non‐glacial processes and whether it remains a disturbance regime landscape.