近年来,在西北欧洲应用冰缘现象来恢复古气候环境,显得越来越重要了,这些现象包括冰裂楔形构造、冻融挠曲构造、冻胀丘和冻丘、融冻泥流以及与冰缘环境有关的风成沉积。现在普遍认为这些现象对判断寒冷环境或冻缘环境是有效的。晚冰期时,斯堪的纳维亚大冰盖一直扩展到欧洲大陆的北缘,在它的外围,西面从英国南部和法国北部开始,向东经比利时、荷兰、丹麦、德国、波兰,一直到苏联的波罗的海沿岸是宽广的冰缘带,冰缘现象十分发育,保存比较完好,这个地带又是欧洲第四纪研究程度较高 In recent years, it has become more and more important to restore the paleoclimate environment by applying the fringe phenomenon in northwestern Europe. These phenomena include the ice-cracking wedge structure, the freeze-thaw flexure structure, the frost heave and frozen dome, the frozen mud flow, Permafrost environment related to the deposition of the wind. It is generally accepted that these phenomena are effective in judging cold or frostbite environments. During the Ice Age, the Scandinavian ice sheet extended to the northern margin of the European continent, on its outskirts, west of southern England and northern France, east of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Poland To the Soviet Union’s Baltic Sea coast is a broad ice margin, the phenomenon of ice edge is very developed, well preserved, this area is a high degree of European Quaternary research