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What does periglacial mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geomorphology) Of or pertaining to the area around the edge of a glacier.
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In periglacial climates a patterned form of blanket bog may occur, known as a string bog.
Preserved sediments record deposition in a periglacial to ice-margin lake that contains one of the earliest assemblages of freshwater arthropods from Gondwana.
Severe conditions in a periglacial tundra with the predominance of cryophytes, cryophytes of the fern and club moss group disappeared completely.
Similar laminated deposits are formed in more distal periglacial lakes.
These were carved on a large earthfast boulder situated on a natural lynchet that follows the line of a periglacial feature.
Hence the cracks probably developed following glacial retreat when the area containing the eroded surface of Bedford Sandstone was in a periglacial setting.

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