Background
Ballantyne, Colin Kerr was born on June 7, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Robert Morrison Ballantyne and Isabella Sturrock Kerr.
(A climate of arctic severity prevailed in Britain through...)
A climate of arctic severity prevailed in Britain throughout much of the last two million years, resulting in the widespread formation of a great range of periglacial landforms and deposits. Many of these features provide key evidence for understanding the evolution of the present landscape and reconstructing former climate. Appreciation of the significance of periglacial deposits and structures is also important in many engineering operations and in understanding the development of present-day soils. This book, first published in 1994, provides a synthesis of theory in periglacial geomorphology and applies this to the study of periglacial phenomena in Great Britain. The first part of the book introduces the chronological and environmental background to periglaciation in Britain. The second and third parts deal respectively with the periglaciation of lowland Britain and upland Britain. The book concludes by considering the implications of periglacial phenomena for environmental reconstruction.
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Ballantyne, Colin Kerr was born on June 7, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Robert Morrison Ballantyne and Isabella Sturrock Kerr.
Master of Arts, University Glasgow, 1973. Master of Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1981.
Doctor of Science, University St. Andrews, Scotland, 2000.
Lecturer geography University St. Andrews, 1980—1989, senior lecturer geography, 1989—1994, professor physical geography, since 1994. Guest professor University Center Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway, since 2000. Erskine visiting fellow University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2003.
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Fellow: Royal Society Arts, Royal Society Edinburgh.
Married Rebecca Josephine Trengove, August 31, 1996. Children: Hamish Trengove, Kate Iona.