in southernNorway. They argue that one must understand the relationships and meanings local people develop with their surroundings in order to facilate negotiations over contested space. A few planning issues are discussed based on their experience
Stepped palaeosurfaces in southernNorway - interpretation of DEM-derived topographic profiles
Digital elevation model ; Escarpment ; Geographical information system ; Geological structure ; Geomorphogenesis ; Lithology ; Norway ; Palaeosurface ; Relief ; Topography
The main objective of this paper is to study palaeosurfaces in south-east Norway and particularly to discuss the origin of the high escarpment bordering the Hardangervidda level to the east. The study focuses on the relation between forms
A pedogenic investigation of some soil chronosequences on neoglacial moraine ridges, southernNorway : examination of soil chemical data using principal components analysis
Late-Holocene snow-avalanche activity in SouthernNorway: interpreting lichen size-frequency distributions using an alternative to simulation modelling
Avalanche ; Dating ; Holocene ; Lichenometry ; Model ; Nineteenth Century ; Norway ; Palaeogeography ; Snow
A new approach to lichenometry, employing the single largest lichens on each boulder in a large sample, has recently been used to reconstruct the pattern of late-Holocene avalanche activity in southernNorway. The number of very large lichens
The study is based on observations from the coastal zone near Åkvåg in Risør Municipality, SouthernNorway. The aim of the article is to present and discuss spatial variations in the locations of potholes and channels over a large-scale roche
Holocene chemical weathering, surface lowering and rock weakening rates on glacially eroded bedrock surfaces in an alpine periglacial environment, Jotunheimen, southernNorway
Channel form, bed material and sediment sources of the Sprongdøla, southernNorway : evidence for a distinct periglaciofluvial system
Avalanche ; Carrying capacity ; Fluvial processes ; Freeze-thaw cycle ; Grain size distribution ; Mountain ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; River bed
This paper is a geomorphological and sedimentological case study of a typical periglacial river in the alpine and subalpine zone of southernNorway. It focuses on the nature and effects of the sediment sources that contribute to downstream variation
Rapid Holocene chemical weathering on a calcitic lake shoreline in an alpine periglacial environment : Attgløyma, Sognefjell, southernNorway
Chemical erosion ; Cold area ; Holocene ; Karst ; Lake ; Lake level ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; Platform ; Shoreline ; Weathering
This paper estimates rates of bedrock surface lowering by chemical weathering associated with a relict lake shoreline in an area of calcitic metamorphic rocks in the low-alpine zone of southernNorway, and sheds light on the environmental controls
Moraines and late glacial activity in southern Varmland, southwestern Sweden
in the high-mountain area in southernNorway just reached into western Värmland. The activity from a centre over the Bothnian Bay, persisting through the Preboreal, approached the region north of Lake Vänern.
On the basis of ice-marginal formations in southern Värmland the dynamics of the Scandinavian inland ice during and after the Younger Dryas event are discussed. It is concluded that the ice sheet was two-centred. The activity from a centre
A regional inventory of rock glaciers and ice-cored moraines in Norway
Classification ; Inventory ; Mountain ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Rock glacier ; Spatial distribution
to sea level and the majority of the landforms are relict talus-derived rock glaciers. In southernNorway, permafrost landforms are restricted to high elevations and the majority of the landforms are connected to glacial activity and classified as active
In total 307 permafrost landforms have been mapped, consisting of rock glaciers and ice-cored moraines. The landforms were classified as active/inactive (intact) or relict landforms, and by origin. In northern Norway, permafrost landforms exist down
Permafrost in alpine rock faces from Jotunheimen and Hurrungane, SouthernNorway
Altitude ; Climatic warming ; Heat flow ; Model ; Mountain ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Slope exposure ; SouthernNorway ; Spatial distribution ; Surface temperature
To better estimate the thermal state of permafrost in steep rock walls in Norway, 5 temperature loggers were installed in 2009 and 2010, measuring the near-surface rock wall temperatures in vertical rock faces. Surface temperatures in rock walls
in Norway are on average higher than the ambient air temperature, by about 1° C in shaded faces to more than 3° C in faces with other aspects. An aspect dependency of rock wall temperatures is mainly visible during summer, with deviations of up to 4° C
Lichen growth rates on glacier forelands in southernNorway : preliminary results from a 25-year monitoring programme
Biogeography ; Climatic variability ; Cold area ; Dating ; Growth model ; Inventory ; Lichen ; Lichenometry ; Moraine ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; SouthernNorway
growth rates could not have been maintained over the last few centuries by the largest lichens used in southernNorway for lichenometric dating. Several hypotheses, such as the effects of competition and climate change which might explain this paradox
High-precision Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating of flood berms, Vetlestølsdalen, alpine southernNorway : first application and some methodological issues
Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) was applied to 3 flood berms in upper Vetlestølsdalen, southernNorway, using a local, high-precision calibration curve that takes account of the colluvial origin of fluvial boulders in the youngest berm
A ten-year record (1999-2009) of annual mean ground surface temperatures (MGSTs) and mean ground temperatures (MGTs) was analysed for 16 monitoring sites in Jotunheimen and on Dovrefjell, southernNorway. Warming has occurred at sites with cold
Air and ground temperature variations observed along elevation and continentality gradients in southernNorway
Air temperature ; Altitude ; Continentality ; Mountain ; Norway ; Periglacial features ; Permafrost ; Soil temperature ; SouthernNorway ; Temperature ; Thermal regime
The coupling between air and ground temperatures in the mountains of southernNorway was examined using 12 shallow boreholes drilled in August 2008. Three borehole arrays (at Juvvass, Jetta and Tron), each with boreholes at different elevations