The Physical Geography Of Fennoscandia

by Seppälä, Matti

• ISBN13: 9780199245901
• ISBN10: 0199245908
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the fifth volume to appear in the Oxford Regional Environments series. Fennoscandia is composed of Finland ('Fennia' in Latin) and the Scandinavian peninsula (Norway and Sweden). A team of experts here presents the physical geographical factors which affect and control life in this northern area. The contributors concentrate on topics which are characteristic of the region, scientifically sound, and not necessarily familiar to an international audience, such as land uplift, large drumlin fields and eskers, mires, snow, the timberline, fjords, archipelagos, lakes, scattered frost features, and the biodiversity of conservation.

Table of Contents

List of Colour Plates	xvii
List of Figures	xviii
List of Tables	xxvii
Notes on the Contributors	xxviii
Part I Physical Environment	1	(200)
Major Landforms and Bedrock	3	(14)
Karna Lidmar-Bergstrom
Jens-Ove Naslund
Land Uplift: Virgin Land from the Sea	17	(18)
Matti Eronen
Glacially Sculptured Landforms	35	(24)
Matti Seppala
Present-Day Geomorphic Processes	59	(18)
Matti Seppala
Mires	77	(20)
Hannu Pajunen
Climate	97	(16)
Matti Tikkanen
Recent Climatic Trends	113	(22)
Anders Moberg
Heikki Tuomenvirta
Øyvind Nordli
Rivers and Lakes of Fennoscandia	135	(24)
Veli Hyvarinen
Juha Kajander
Snow as a Geographic Element	159	(16)
Esko Kuusisto
Glaciers	175	(10)
Per Holmlund
Boreal Forests and Northern and Upper Timberlines	185	(16)
Olavi Heikkinen
Part II Physiographic Regions	201	(164)
Atlantic Coast and Fjords	203	(26)
Geoffrey D. Corner
Scandes Mountains	229	(26)
Geoffrey D. Corner
Uplands and Lowlands in Southern Sweden	255	(12)
Karna Lidmar-Bergstrom
Jens-Ove Naslund
Archipelagos in the Baltic Sea	267	(16)
Rune Frisen
Carl Erik Johansson
Veli Suominen
Lake District of Finland	283	(14)
Esko Kuusisto
Mountain Taiga of Sweden	297	(28)
Leif Kullman
Rivers Draining into the Gulf of Bothnia	325	(24)
Carl Erik Johansson
Periglacial Environment	349	(16)
Math Seppala
Part III Humans in the Environment	365	(54)
Major Human Impact	367	(16)
John Westerholm
Acid Rain and Acidification of Lakes	383	(8)
Ingemar Renberg
Richard Bindler
Tom Korsman
Lake-Water Pollution	391	(14)
Jaakko Mannio
Brit-Lisa Skjelkvale
Anders Wilander
Eirik Fjeld
Seppo Rekolainen
Biodiversity Conservation	405	(14)
Antti Haapanen
Index	419