Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products

by Hambrey, Michael J.; Christoffersen, Poul; Glasser, Neil F.; Hubbard, Bryn

• ISBN13: 9781405183000
• ISBN10: 1405183004
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Associating ice masses with the transport and deposition of sediments has long formed a central theme in glaciology and glacial geomorphology. The reason for this focus is clear, in that ice masses are responsible for much of the physical landscape which characterizes the Earth's glaciated regions. This association also holds at a variety of scales, for example, from the grain-size characteristics of small-scale moraines to the structural architecture of large-scale, glacigenic sedimentary sequences in both surface and subaqueous environments. This volume brings numerous state-of-the-art research contributions together, each relating to a different physical setting, spatial scale, process or investigative technique. The result is a diverse and interesting collection of papers by glaciologists, numerical modellers and glacial geologists, which are all linked by the theme of investigating the relationships between the behaviour of ice masses and their resulting sedimentary sequences.

Author Biography

Michael J. Hambrey and Poul Christoffersen are the authors of Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword: Brian Harland and the Neoproterozoic 'Snowball Earth' Concept

Introduction to Papers

Glacier Dynamics and Sedimentation

Hydrological Connections Between Antarctic Subglacial Lakes, the Flow of Water Beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and Implications for Sedimentary Processes

Sedimentology, Structural Characteristics and Morphology of a Neoglacial High-Arctic Moraine-Mound Complex: Midre Lov_nbreen, Svalbard

A New Laboratory Apparatus for Investigating Clast Ploughing

Modelling Glaciers and Ice Sheets

A Coupled Ice-sheet/Ice-shelf/Sediment Model Applied to a Marine Margin Flowline: Forced and Unforced Variations

A Brief Review on Modelling Sediment Erosion, Transport and Deposition by Former Large Ice Sheets

Quaternary Glacial Systems

Glaciomarine Sediment Drifts from Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula

Sedimentary Signatures of the Waterloo Moraine, Ontario, Canada

Estimating Episodic Permafrost Development in Northern Germany during the Pleistocene

Lake-level Control on Ice-margin Subaqueous Fans, Glacial Lake Rinteln, Northwest Germany

Seasonal Controls on Deposition of Late Devensian Glaciolacustrine Sediments, Central Ireland

Anatomy and Facies Association of a Drumlin in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, from Seismic and Electrical Resistivity Surveys

The Newbigging Esker System, Lanarkshire, Southern Scotland: A Model for Composite Tunnel, Subaqueous Fan and Supraglacial Esker Sedimentation

The Age and Origin of the Blakeney Esker of North Norfolk: Implications for the Glaciology of the Southern North Sea Basin

Sediments and Landforms in an Upland Glaciated-valley Landsystem: Ennerdale, English Lake District

Pre-Quaternary Glacial Systems

Cenozoic Climate and Sea Level History from Glacimarine Strata off the Victoria Land Coast, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica

Glacial Stress Field Orientation Reconstructed through Micromorphology and μX-Ray Computed Tomography of Till

The Late Ordovician Glacial Sedimentary Systems of the North Gondwana Platform

The Ordovician Glaciation in Eritrea and Ethiopia, NE Africa

Neoproterozoic Glaciated Basins: A Critical Review of the 'Snowball Earth' Hypothesis by Comparison with Phanerozoic Glaciations

Index

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