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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
wiley   +1 more source

The Causes and Implications of Microstructures in Glacial Sediments [PDF]

, 1998
This thesis examines how microstructures in glaciogenic sediments reflect the processes forming them, and how these microstructures then affect the conditions around them, through a series of field studies, laboratory tests, models, and statistical ...
Evans, Andrew John, Evans, A.J.
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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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Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
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Linking bedrock discontinuities to glacial quarrying

Annals of Glaciology, 2019
Quarrying and abrasion are the two principal processes responsible for glacial erosion of bedrock. The morphologies of glacier hard beds depend on the relative effectiveness of these two processes, as abrasion tends to smooth bedrock surfaces and ...
J. B. Woodard, L. K. Zoet, N. R. Iverson, C. Helanow   +3 more
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Refining the timing of Middle Pleistocene (MIS 12 to MIS 6) ice advances into northern central Europe: sedimentological analysis and single‐grain luminescence dating of glaciotectonic complexes and tunnel‐valley fills

Boreas, EarlyView.
We summarize the current state of knowledge on the age of the Middle Pleistocene ice advances into northern central Europe and provide 25 new single‐grain feldspar luminescence ages of Elsterian and Saalian glacigenic sediments to constrain the age of the ice advances and their tentative correlation with marine isotope stages/substages.
Niklas von Soest, Neda Rahimzadeh, Debra Colarossi, Falko Malis, Tobias Lauer, Wera Sander‐Beuermann, Yvonne Spychala, Christian Brandes, Runa Fälber, Sumiko Tsukamoto, Jutta Winsemann   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An ice-sheet scale comparison of eskers with modelled subglacial drainage routes [PDF]

, 2015
Eskers record the signature of channelised meltwater drainage during deglaciation providing vital information on the nature and evolution of subglacial drainage.
Stokes, C.R., C.D. Clark (630927), Storrar, RD, Clark, CD, Tarasov, L, Stokes, Chris R., Hillier, J.K., Clark, C.D., Livingstone, SJ, Clark, Chris D., C.R. Stokes (630946), Tarasov, L., Livingstone, S.J., Stephen J. Livingstone (3691018), Tarasov, Lev, Livingstone, Stephen J., John Hillier (1254873), Storrar, Robert D., R. Storrar (630947), Hillier, JK, Hillier, John K., L. Tarasov (7191965), Storrar, R.D., Stokes, CR   +23 more
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Experimental constraints on subglacial rock friction

Annals of Glaciology, 2019
Subglacial rock friction is an important control on the sliding dynamics and erosive potential of hard-bedded glaciers, yet it remains largely unconstrained.
Dougal D. Hansen, Lucas K. Zoet
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Changing climates and environments within the complex Middle to Late Pleistocene fill of an overdeepened valley at Niederweningen, Switzerland

Boreas, EarlyView.
Glacially overdeepened valleys in the northern Alpine Foreland preserve Middle to Late Pleistocene sedimentary sequences that may serve as valuable archives for reconstructing past environmental changes in response to shifts in climate. This study presents a multidisciplinary analysis of two sediment cores from the overdeepened Wehntal Valley at ...
Johannes M. Miocic, Nigel Thew, Ruth Drescher‐Schneider, Hans Rudolf Graf, Marlu Kühn, Frank Preusser, Werner H. Schoch, Lucia Wick, Heinz Furrer   +8 more
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Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling [PDF]

, 2015
Accessing and sampling subglacial environments deep beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet presents several challenges to existing drilling technologies. With over half of the ice sheet believed to be resting on a wet bed, drilling down to this environment must
Smith, Andrew, Tranter, Martyn, Smith, Andrew M, Mowlem, M., Ross, N., Hodgson, Dominic A., Ross, N, Parnell, J, Rose, Mike, Mowlem, Matt, Bentley, Michael J., Siegert, MJ, Parnell, John, Mowlem, Matthew, Pearce, D., Hodgson, D.A., Siegert, M.J., Siegert, Martin J., Bentley, M.J., Tranter, M., Tranter, M, Rose, M, Smith, A.M., Ross, Neil, Smith, Andrew M., Makinson, K, Hodgson, DA, Makinson, Keith, Bentley, Michael, Hodgson, Dominic, Mowlem, M, Rose, M., Pearce, David, Pearce, D, Makinson, K., Siegert, Martin, Smith, AM, Parnell, J., Bentley, MJ   +38 more
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