Introduction

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Introduction

Environmental reconstructions utilising the evidence of relic or fossil periglacial features are necessarily based on the nature and present distribution of comparable active features. The most critical features are those indicative of permafrost, because of the negative mean annual temperatures required for permafrost, whereas many other cold climate features are much less informative as to temperature implications. (Washburn, Geocryology, 1980, 279).