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By S. Hastenrath

`This e-book is a masterly compendium for these glaciologists looking wisdom just a little outdoor their very own particular fields of research.'Journal of Glaciology, 31 (1986)
`This is a well timed, well-written, authoritative quantity. i like to recommend it to these drawn to claciology, tropical geomorphology, or climatology.'American Scientist (1986)

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ETHIOPIA Mapping of Pleistocene glacial morphology in High Semyen in December 1973 (Hastenrath, 1974) gave the opportunity for observation of subnival soil forms. Weak remnants of needle ice were found at lowest elevations around 3700 m. Turf exfoliation and micro vegetation terracettes occur upward of about 3750 m, and can be found up to more than 4350 m. This indicates the preferred altitudinal domain of these soil frost forms. Stone stripes, fine material polygons and bands, and cake polygons, are the most conspicuous form types upward of 4250 m.

I. ~ k·. '! ;•:. \ .... • v. ·.... A BLOEMFONTEIN. 2:1. Orientation map. 2:4, are marked by broken line. Transects in Figs. 2:2 are indicated by shading. 53-55; Hastenrath and Lamb, 1979, chart 2) are situated in the Southern hemisphere and the Northwest monsoon sweeps the Western Indian Ocean and adjacent East Mrica, extending to well beyond the Equator. Cyclonic inflow is apparent in the summertime hot continental region of Southern Africa. 2:4, January). Concomitant with the cooling of the Southern hemispheric continent and the northward displacement of the equatorial low pressure trough (Thompson, 1965, pp.

2 :8. Incipient mud polygon formations on moist soil at about 4170 m along Chogoria route, East side of Mount Kenya. Pocket knife as scale is 9 em long. , June 1973). 2 :9. Fine earth mounds, 4700 m, Mount Kenya. Box as scale has diameter of 7 em. , July 1971). cover during the season of abundant precipitation through January, which is later ablated or buried by scree. From January to March a distinct material sorting is observed, with nearly one-m-wide bands of coarse rock fragments . It is believed that change of frost may playa role -in the sorting process.

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