Outline the major landforms associated with Periglacial landscapes and discuss their formation.

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Outline the major landforms associated with Periglacial landscapes and discuss their formation.

Periglacial (peri=near) are landforms that are close to cold and arid environments geographically and physically. Usually surrounding glaciers they are earth environments which are non-glacial experiencing huge shifts and changes to their temperature throughout the year. The term also states that the process of freezing water (ground ice) must occur in these environments creating ice and permafrost to form. As the "zone peripheral to glaciers" the ground temperature for these arid environments share the same conditions and temperature as their neighbour, with the ground temperature being below 0 o C for six months of the year with the temperature increasing enough to melt away only some of the ice or permafrost from the Earth's surface (1metre). As these freezing cycles happen throughout the year there are a number of processes that occur resulting in the creation of different landforms which can be seen in Periglacial environments today e.g. Tundra. There are five different processes that affect the formation of the land and characterise its appearance leading to ten forms of landscape, featuring in these Earth environments.

The first process or cycle that affects the formation