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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : IAS/Blackwell Pub., 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 p.)
• Disciplina: 551.31/5
• Soggetto topico: Drift; Glacial landforms
• Altri autori: HambreyM. J
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Glacial sedimentary processes and products
• ISBN: 9786612042447; 1-4443-0443-7; 1-282-04244-0; 1-4443-0444-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910146397803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Special Publication Number 39 of the International Association of Sedimentologists