Ice-driven and cold-climate landscape processes: glaciation and permafrost and periglacial processes. Belongs here: a process that requires sustained ice or freeze-thaw cycling to operate. Does not belong here: an ordinary weathering or erosion process that happens to occur in a cold climate without ice being the active agent, held under Geomorphology.
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This branch of science deals with the complex physical, chemical, and biological constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres: the biosphere, hydrosphere/cryosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere (or lithosphere).
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