Evidence of multiple thermokarst events in northeastern France and southern Belgium during the two last glaciations. A discussion on ‘Features caused by ground ice growth and decay in Late Pleistocene fluvial deposits, Paris basin, France’ (Bertran et al., 2018)

peer reviewed ; The past thermokarst activities in valleys of northern France and Belgium covered the Upper Weichselian and the Upper Saalian periods. To develop in western Europe, thermokarst first requires an accumulation of ground ice close to the surface progressively stored along the glacial-time permafrost aggradation: it is regionally uncommon during the early glacials, especially on the plateau, but frequent during the Upper Pleniglacials in valleys. These features mostly relate to various frost mounds created by injection and segregated ices. The role of ice wedges is really very limi... Mehr ...