Glacial Sedimentary Processes and ProductsISBN: 978-1-4051-8300-0
Hardcover
436 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.