Azonal Processes and Landforms - The Periglacial Environment - page 269

Location Aeolian Forms Age Wind Direction Comments Source

Arctic Canada:
Yukon Territory

Sand sheets S-SW Discontinuous, active Nickling (1978)

Banks Island Sand sheets Mid-Holocene SE Continuous, active, Pissart et al. (1977);

niveo- and fl uvio-aeolian Good and Bryant (1985)

Southeast Dunes, sand sheets N-ESE Scattered, partly active McKenna-Neuman and

Baffi n Island Gilbert (1986)

Antarctica:
Victoria Valley Transverse dunes;

wholeback dunes - Active Selby et al. (1974)

Alaska:
Big Delta: Yukon

Dunes: parabolic, Illinoian (?) - N Scattered Péwé (1975)

Flats sand sheets Wisconsinan

Tanana River Valley Dunes: parabolic, Illinoian (?) - NE Scattered, extent > 10 000 km²

longitudinal Wisconsinan scattered

Kuskokwim River Dunes: parabolic Illinoian (?) - Scattered

Va l ley Wisc onsi na n

Koyukuk Valley Dunes: parabolic, Late Wisconsinan - NE Scattered, partly active Koster (1988)

transverse, Holocene discontinuous

longitudinal sand

sheets

Kobuk Valley Dunes: parabolic, Late Illinoian (?) - NE-SE Scattered, partly active Péwé (1975)

transverse, Late Wisconsinan - megadunes up to 50 m

longitudinal, Recent high

barchanoid sand

sheets

Arctic Coastal Plain Dunes: parabolic, Late Wisconsinan - (SW-W)-NE-E Scattered, partly Carter (1981)

longitudinal Recent stabilized

Scandinavia:
Finnish Lapland Dunes: parabolic Late Wisconsinan - NW Partly stable; active Seppälä, (1971); (1995b)

Holocene

Northern Sweden Dunes: parabolic Late Wisconsinan - NW Partly stable Seppälä, (1972a)

Holocene

Qinghai Xizang (Tibet)

Plateau: Dunes: barchan Recent W Active Wang and French (1995c)