Keywords:
Drift.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118652589
Series Statement:
The Cryosphere Science Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5057703
DDC:
551.31/4
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Glacigenic Diamictons - A Rationale for Study -- Chapter 2 A Brief History of Till Research and Developing Nomenclature -- Chapter 3 Till - When is it an Inappropriate Term? -- Chapter 4 Glacigenic Diamictons: A Strategy for Field Description and Analysis -- 4.1 Diamicton -- 4.2 (Glacigenic) Melange -- 4.3 Physics of Material Behaviour -- 4.4 Typical Structures -- 4.5 Clast Macrofabrics and Microfabrics -- Chapter 5 Subglacial Sedimentary Processes: Origins of Till Matrix and Terminal Grade -- Chapter 6 Subglacial Sedimentary Processes: Modern Observations on Till Evolution -- 6.1 Lodgement, Lee-Side Cavity Filling and Ploughing -- 6.2 Deformation -- 6.3 Soft-Bed Sliding (Ice Keel Ploughing), Meltwater Drainage and Ice-Bed Decoupling -- 6.4 Melt-Out -- 6.5 Glacitectonite Production, Rafting and Cannibalisation -- Chapter 7 Subglacial Sedimentary Processes: Laboratory and Modelling Experiments on Till Evolution -- Chapter 8 Measuring Strain Signatures in Glacial Deposits -- Chapter 9 The Geological Record: Products of Lodgement, Cavity Fill and the Boulder Pavement Problem -- 9.1 Introduction - Repositioning Field Studies and Experimental Reductionism -- 9.2 Lodgement -- 9.3 Clast (Boulder) Pavements -- 9.4 Lee-side Cavity Fills -- Chapter 10 The Geological Record: Deforming Bed Deposits -- Chapter 11 The Geological Record: Sliding Bed Deposits -- Chapter 12 The Geological Record: Impacts of Pressurised Water (Clastic Dykes) -- Chapter 13 The Geological Record: Melt-out Till -- Chapter 14 The Geological Record: Glacitectonite -- Chapter 15 Glacial Diamictons Unrelated to Subglacial Processes -- Chapter 16 Till Spatial Mosaics, Temporal Variability and Architecture -- Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks: The Case for a Simplified Nomenclature -- References -- Index -- EULA.
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