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How glaciers exploit prior fractures to quarry beds of partially intact rock

Journal of Glaciology
Quarrying is a significant, locally dominant glacial erosion process. For settings where glaciers cut into partially intact bedrock, prior work has hypothesized that it occurs when glaciers impose spatially concentrated loads to drive fracture growth in ...
Christopher Roland Theiss, Kurt M. Cuffey, Chang Xia, Qi Zhao   +3 more
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Depositional and Hydrological Relationships Between Buried Dead Ice and the Active Layer in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: A Study of Sediment Geochemistry and Cation Concentrations

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The McMurdo Dry Valleys, the largest ice‐free region in Antarctica, are home to a cold‐desert hydrologic system of glaciers, snowbanks, streams, and lakes. Freshwater is also stored as dead glacial ice, which is poorly constrained in terms of ion concentrations and interactions with both in situ and overlying sediments.
Matthew C. Witscheber, Kate M. Swanger
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GLACIAL LANDFORMS IN TIBET - A geomorphological study of the western Himalayas

, 2023
Glacial landforms on the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas have long been an object of interest and study in the geology community. The knowledge of their location and distribution may prove to be crucial for numerous future studies.
Blomgren, Ida
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Quantifying the Surface Deformation of Pingos on the Alaskan North Slope Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pingos are large mounds with cores formed of intrusive ice that form in periglacial landscapes. These ice structures can form in regions of discontinuous permafrost, commonly as hydraulic or open‐system pingos, or in locations of continuous permafrost, commonly as hydrostatic or closed‐system pingos.
Venezia M. Follingstad, Roger J. Michaelides, Matthew R. Siegfried, Tyler M. Meng, John Bradford, Kynan H. G. Hughson, Alexia R. Kubas, Andrew Mullen, Enrica Quartini, Austin Routt, Hanna G. Sizemore, Andrei Swidinsky, Britney E. Schmidt   +12 more
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Quantifying subglacial roughness and its link to glacial geomorphology and ice speed [PDF]

, 2013
The shape of subglacial bed topography, termed its roughness, is a recognised control on basal ice-flow. Although glaciologists have observed patterns of variations in ice speed over beds with different roughness values, the strength of this relationship
PRESCOTT, PHILIP,WILLIAM
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Periglacial Puzzles: Unravelling Environmental Controls on Alpine Solifluction Lobe Dimensions and Shape

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freeze–thaw processes cause periglacial creep (otherwise known as solifluction) which forms solifluction lobes. These are lobate features characterized by a steep riser (front) and a smooth tread (body). Despite the widespread occurrence of these lobes, the controls on their morphometry remain poorly understood. Research into solifluction lobe
Jil S. van Etten, Jana Eichel, Daniel Draebing   +2 more
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Pared-down landscapes in Antarctica [PDF]

, 1971
The frigid-arid climate that now prevails in ice-free parts of Victoria Land, Antarctica, inhibits glacial erosion. If certain landscapes, more or less remote from the great troughs of outlet glaciers, have been glaciated in the past, as seems very ...
Cotton, C.A., Wilson, A.T.
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Integrating SfM, LiDAR and TLS for High‐Resolution Monitoring of Palsa Surface Changes and Degradation Dynamics

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding fine‐scale surface changes is crucial for quantifying ecosystem dynamics and detecting landscape changes. Palsas, comparably small peatland elevations with an ice‐rich permafrost core, undergo natural cycles of growth and degradation. They can also serve as indicators of climate change in subarctic regions. Because they typically
Alexander Störmer, Timo Kumpula, Pasi Korpelainen, Benjamin Burkhard   +3 more
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Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the 2D and 3D Investigation of Pingos and Permafrost Mounds in Northern Canada's Mountain and Coastland Areas

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pingos and related permafrost mounds are widespread periglacial landforms in Arctic environments that are ice‐rich on the one hand and contain taliks on the other, making them vulnerable to climate change. So far, the interior, geophysical characteristics, and distribution of ground ice within these dome‐ or cone‐shaped features have not been ...
Tim Wiegand, Julius Kunz, Christof Kneisel   +2 more
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Glacial geomorphology and dynamics in Cardaño valley, Palencia (cantabrian mountains)

Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 2013
Resumen
José María Redondo Vega, Javier Santos González
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