Kurum (landform)

Short description: Mantle of loose rocks moving by creeping on gentle slopes.

A kurum is a landform made up of a mantle of loose blocks of rock moving downslope by creep in cold climates. Kurums differs from other similar landforms in that they form on slopes of lesser angle than natural debris slopes.[1] Relict kurums formed during the Quaternary have been reported in western Europe including the Black Forest and the Ardennes. Active kurums exists in Siberia.[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Romanonovskij, N.N.; Turin, A.I. (1986). "Kurums". Biuletyn Peryglacjalny 31: 249–259.

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Periglacial environment

Landforms|

* Blockfield
* Bratschen
* Cryoplanation terrace
* Glacial erratic
* Paha
* Palsa
* Periglacial lake
* Pingo
* Protalus rampart
* Rock glacier
* Strandflat
* Glaciokarst
* Thermokarst

| Patterned ground|

* Frost boil
* Polygons
* Solifluction lobes and sheets
* Sorted stripe
* Stone ring

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Processes|

* Cryoplanation
* Cryosuction
* Cryoturbation
* Fluvio-thermal erosion
* Frost heave
* Frost weathering
* Gelifluction
* Ice segregation
* Methane release
* Nivation
* Solifluction
* Syngenetic permafrost growth
* Zero-curtain effect

Soils and deposits|

* Active layer
* Gelisols
* Ice wedge
* Loess
* Peat
* Permafrost
* Stratified slope deposit
* Talik
* Yedoma

Biomes and ecotones|

* Arctic tundra
* Arctic tree line
* Antarctic oasis
* Antarctic tundra
* Montane grasslands and shrublands
* Alpine tundra
* Alpine tree line (Massenerhebung effect)
* Taiga (Drunken trees)

Climate|

* Alpine
* Polar
* Subpolar

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