Ice-Marginal and Periglacial Processes and Sediments
Product code: SP354
Print publication date: 06/06/2011
Earth and Solar System History, Sedimentology, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393271
Author/Edited by: Edited by I P Martini, H M French and A Perez-Alberti
Weight: 0.9kg
Number of pages: 296
Online publication date: 17/05/2011
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/354/1
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Product Code: SP354
Edited by I P Martini, H M French and A Perez-Alberti
Understanding the sediments deposited by glaciers or other cold-climate processes assumes enhanced significance in the context of current global warming and the predicted melt and retreat of glaciers and ice sheets.
This volume analyses glacial, proglacial and periglacial settings. Papers include topics such as sedimentation at termini of tidewater glaciers, poorly understood high-mountain features, and slope and aeolian deposits that have been sourced in glacial and periglacial regions and subsequently transported and deposited by azonal processes. Difficulties encountered in inferring Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene cold-climate conditions when the sedimentary record lacks specific diagnostic indicators are discussed. The main objective of this volume is to establish the validity and limitations of the evidence that is used to achieve reliable palaeogeographic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions. On the much longer geological timescale, an understanding of ice-marginal and periglacial environments may better prepare us for the unavoidable reversal towards cooler and perhaps even glacial times in the future.
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Preface
MARTINI, I. P., FRENCH, H.M. & ALBERTI, A. P. Ice-marginal and periglacial processes and sediments: an introduction
INGÓLFSSON, Ó. Fingerprints of Quaternary glaciations on Svalbard
LØNNE, I.&NEMEC, W. Modes of sediment delivery to the grounding line of a fast-flowing tidewater glacier: implications for ice-margin conditions and glacier dynamics
LØNNE, I.&NEMEC, W. The kinematics of ancient tidewater ice margins: criteria for recognition from grounding-line moraines
LUKAS, S. & SASS, O. The formation of Alpine lateral moraines inferred from sedimentology and radar reflection patterns: a case study from Gornergletscher, Switzerland
PÉREZ ALBERTI, A., DIAZ, M. V., MARTINI, I. P., PASCUCCI, V. & ANDREUCCI, S. Upper Pleistocene glacial valley-junction sediments at Pias, Trevinca Mountains, NW Spain
CARLING, P. A., KNAAPEN, M., BORODAVKO, P., HERGET, J., KOPTEV, I., HUGGENBERGER, P. & PARNACHEV, S. Palaeoshorelines of glacial Lake Kuray–Chuja, south-central Siberia: form, sediments and process
KELLER, M., HINDERER, M.,AL-AJMI, H.&RAUSCH, R. Palaeozoic glacial depositional environments of SW Saudi Arabia: process and product
FRENCH, H. Frozen sediments and previously-frozen sediments
LEVY, J. S., HEAD, J. W. & MARCHANT, D. R. Gullies, polygons and mantles in Martian permafrost environments: cold desert landforms and sedimentary processes during recent Martian geological history
THORN, C. E., DARMODY, R. G. & DIXON, J. C. Rethinking weathering and pedogenesis in alpine periglacial regions: some Scandinavian evidence
GUGLIELMIN, M., FAVERO-LONGO, S. E., CANNONE, N., PIERVITTORI, R. & STRINI, A. Role of lichens in granite weathering in cold and arid environments of continental Antarctic
VANDENBERGHE, J. Periglacial sediments: do they exist?
VAN STEIJN, H. Stratified slope deposits: periglacial and other processes involved
OLIVA,M.& ORTIZ, A. G. Holocene slope dynamics in Sierra Nevada (south Spain). Sedimentological analysis of solifluction landforms and lake deposits
BROOKFIELD, M. E. Aeolian processes and features in cool climates
NEWELL, W. L. & DEJONG, B. D. Cold-climate slope deposits and landscape modifications of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, Eastern USA
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