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Record Nr.

UNISA996212358403316

Titolo

Glacial sedimentary processes and products [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael J. Hambrey ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : IAS/Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

9786612042447

1-4443-0443-7

1-282-04244-0

1-4443-0444-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Collana

International Association of Sedimentologists special publications ; ; 39

Altri autori (Persone)

HambreyM. J

Disciplina

551.31/5

Soggetti

Drift

Glacial landforms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Special publication number 39 of the International Association of Sedimentologists."

Papers presented at the International Conference on "Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products" held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in August 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction to Papers""; ""Part 1  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 Lovenbreen, Svalbard""; ""A new laboratory apparatus for investigating clast ploughing""; ""Part 2  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""; ""Part 3  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: upper Ennerdale, English Lake District""""Part 4  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 m X-ray computed  tomography of till""; ""The Late Ordovician glacial sedimentary system 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""