Fjord Systems and Archives
Product code: SP344
Print publication date: 05/01/2011
Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393127
Author/Edited by: Edited by J A Howe, W E N Austin, M Forwick and M Paetzel
Weight: 1.05kg
Number of pages: 392
Online publication date: 17/11/2010
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/344/1
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Product Code: SP344
Edited by J A Howe, W E N Austin, M Forwick and M Paetzel
Fjords are glacially over-deepened, semi-enclosed marine basins, but are often neglected as a sedimentary realm. They represent the transition from the terrestrial to the marine environment and as such have the potential to preserve evidence of environmental change.
Typically most fjords have been glaciated a number of times and some high-latitude fjords still possess a resident glacier. The stratigraphic record in fjords largely preserves a glacial–deglacial cycle of deposition. Sheltered water and high sedimentation rates potentially make fjords ideal depositional environments for preserving continuous records of climate and environmental change with high temporal resolution. Fjords are also referred to as miniature oceans providing the unique opportunity to study marine processes in great detail. With predictions of warming climates, changing ocean circulation and rising sea levels, this volume is a timely look at these environmentally sensitive coastlines.
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TVERBERG, V., HAUGAN, P. M. & GAMMELSROD, T. Dedication to Harald Svendsen
AUSTIN, W. E. N., HOWE, J. A., FORWICK, M. & PAETZEL, M. Fjord systems and archives: an introduction
HOWE, J. A., AUSTIN, W. E. N., FORWICK, M., PAETZEL, M., HARLAND, R. & CAGE, A. G. Fjord systems and archives: a review
Physics
INALL, M. E. & GILLIBRAND, P. A. The physics of mid-latitude fjords: a review
COTTIER, F. R., NILSEN, F., SKOGSETH, R., TVERBERG, V., SKARÐHAMAR, J. & SVENDSEN, H. Arctic fjords: a review of the oceanographic environment and dominant physical processes
SKARÐHAMAR, J. & SVENDSEN, H. Short-term hydrographic variability in a stratified Arctic fjord
Biology
HOWE, J. A., HARLAND, R., COTTIER, F. R., BRAND, T., WILLIS, K. J., BERGE, J. R., GRØSFJELD, K. & ERIKSSON, A. Dinoflagellate cysts as proxies for palaeoceanographic conditions in Arctic fjords
HARLAND, R., NORDBERG, K. & FILIPSSON, H. L. A major change in the dinoflagellate cyst flora of Gullmar Fjord, Sweden, at around 1969/1970 and its possible explanation
AUSTIN, W. E. N. & CAGE, A. G. High benthic foraminiferal species counts in a Clyde Sea maerl bed, western Scotland
Modern sediment processes
TRUSEL, L. D., POWELL, R. D., CUMPSTON, R. M. & BRIGHAM-GRETTE, J. Modern glacimarine processes and potential future behaviour of Kronebreen and Kongsvegen polythermal tidewater glaciers, Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
LOH, P. S., REEVES, A. D., MILLER, A. E. J., HARVEY, S. M. & OVERNELL, J. Sediment fluxes and carbon budgets in Loch Creran, western Scotland
Sediments and depositional architecture
OVEREEM, I. & SYVITSKI, J. P. M. Experimental exploration of the stratigraphy of fjords fed by glaciofluvial systems
DALLIMORE, A. & JMIEFF, D. G. Canadian west coast fjords and inlets of the NE Pacific Ocean as depositional archives
FORWICK, M., VORREN, T. O., HALD, M., KORSUN, S., ROH, Y., VOGT, C. & YOO, K.-C. Spatial and temporal influence of glaciers and rivers on the sedimentary environment in Sassenfjorden and Tempelfjorden, Spitsbergen
MACLACHLAN, S. E., HOWE, J. A. & VARDY, M. E. Morphodynamic evolution of Kongsfjorden–Krossfjorden, Svalbard, during the Late Weichselian and Holocene
BAETEN, N. J., FORWICK, M., VOGT, C. & VORREN, T. O. Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary environments and glacial activity in Billefjorden, Svalbard
STOKER, M. S., WILSON, C. R., HOWE, J. A., BRADWELL, T. & LONG, D. Paraglacial slope instability in Scottish fjords: examples from Little Loch Broom, NW Scotland
Depositional archives and palaeoenvironments
HASS, H. C., KUHN, G., MONIEN, P., BRUMSACK, H.-J. & FORWICK, M. Climate fluctuations during the past two millennia as recorded in sediments from Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica
FILIPSSON, H. L. & NORDBERG, K. Variations in organic carbon flux and stagnation periods during the last 2400 years in a Skagerrak fjord basin, inferred from benthic foraminiferal d13C
PAETZEL, M. & DALE, T. Climate proxies for recent fjord sediments in the inner Sognefjord region, western Norway
SKIRBEKK, K., KRISTENSEN, D. K., RASMUSSEN, T. L., KOC_, N. & FORWICK, M. Holocene climate variations at the entrance to a warm Arctic fjord: evidence from Kongsfjorden trough, Svalbard
MCINTYRE, K. L. & HOWE, J. A. Scottish west coast fjords since the last glaciation: a review
CUNDILL, P. R. & AUSTIN, W. E. N. Pollen analysis of Holocene sediments from Loch Etive, a Scottish fjord
MOKEDDEM, Z., BALTZER, A., GOUBERT, E. & CLET-PELLERIN, M. A multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Loch Sunart (NW Scotland) since the Last Glacial Maximum
BALTZER, A., BATES, R., MOKEDDEM, Z., CLET-PELLERIN, M., WALTER-SIMONNET, A.-V., BONNOT-COURTOIS, C. & AUSTIN, W. E. N. Using seismic facies and pollen analyses to evaluate climatically driven change in a Scottish sea loch (fjord) over the last 20 ka
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