Abstract

Colour Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth a 'blockfield' when it shows an area of rock pillars (Belhaven Press, London, 1992). By HELMUT BLUME. in bedrock limestone. Plate 8. 7 claims to show 211 x 279mm. iv + 140 pp. 251 illustrations. 4 tables. 'thermo-karst' on the surface of the stagnant Tasman ISBN ] 85293 2o6 6. Price .£42.00. glacier when 'pitted sublimation moraine' might be a better description. Plate 8.20 shows a Mackenzie The appeal of this book is unquestionably pictorial Delta pingo (another permafrost -associated feature) but many ofthe illustrations may not have intrinsic immediately after a dead-ice hollow (kettle-hole) attraction for landscape historians. The term 'atlas' and is misleadingly out of context, for the ice-core is misleading because the book contains but two of a pingo originates in a wholly different way from of German geomorphological maps (examples the block of glacier-ice formerly beneath the hollow. maps) and is constructed around a collection of220 In the glacial chapter text and in the notes to Plate photographs, only two of which are not horizontal 8.10 'rock drumlin' is unequivocally regarded as or oblique colour views of landforms. synonymous with 'roche moutonnee', which it is The