This group collects the Landform Concepts subcategory's members that name and define landforms built or shaped by ice: moraines, drumlins, eskers and kames left behind by a retreating glacier, outwash plains and proglacial lakes fed by its meltwater, and periglacial features such as pingos, palsas, rock glaciers and nivation hollows that form in freeze-thaw ground beyond the ice itself. These are definitional entries on the vocabulary of glacial and cold-climate geomorphology rather than descriptions of one named glacier or ice sheet.
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Defining ProcessPeriglaciation describes geomorphic processes that result from seasonal thawing and freezing, very often in areas of permafrost. 1 Glacial and Periglacial Landforms
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Periglaciation (adjective: "periglacial", referring to places at the edges of glacial areas) describes geomorphic processes that result from seasonal thawing and freezing, very often in areas of permafrost.
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