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Periglacial Landscapes of Europe

Abstract

The Iberian Peninsula is amongst the most elevated regions of Europe and it includes a wide range of glacial landforms and deposits distributed across its main mountain ranges. Today, periglacial processes are only active in the highest mountains, but during Pleistocene cold phases they were widespread across Iberia. A variety of periglacial phenomena developed above the glaciated domain during the Last Glacial Cycle as well as below glacial fronts, even at mid and low-altitude environments in central and NW Iberia, as revealed by geomorphic evidence. Most relict permafrost-related features formed immediately after glacial retreat under paraglacial conditions (e.g. rock glaciers). Periglacial processes have been confined to high altitudes since the onset of the Holocene, and at present are active only above 2000–2200 m in northern Iberian ranges and above 2500 m in the southern Sierra Nevada.

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Acknowledgements

Marc Oliva is supported by the Ramón y Cajal Program (RYC-2015-17597) and the Research Group ANTALP (Antarctic, Arctic, Alpine Environments; 2017-SGR-1102) funded by the Government of Catalonia through the AGAUR agency. This chapter complements the research topics examined in the PALEOGREEN project (CTM2017-87976-P) and the NUNANTAR project (02/SAICT/2017—32002) of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

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  1. Department of Geography, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Marc Oliva

  2. Department of Geography, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Enrique Serrano

  3. Instituto de Geografia e do Ordenamento do Território (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    José M. Fernández-Fernández & Marcelo Fernandes

  4. Department of Geography, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    David Palacios

  5. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, Zaragoza, Spain

    José M. García-Ruiz & Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

  6. CRETUS Instituto. Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Augusto Pérez-Alberti

  7. Department of Geography and Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada

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Oliva, M. et al. (2022). The Iberian Peninsula. In: Oliva, M., Nývlt, D., Fernández-Fernández, J.M. (eds) Periglacial Landscapes of Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14895-8_4

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