220 Pages
by
CRC Press
220 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Proceedings of various meetings of the Glaciotectonics Work Group: Field meeting at Møn, Denmark 1986; INQUA congress, Ottawa (1987); Field meeting at Norfolk, UK (1988).
Introduction; Ice-shoved hills of Saskatchewan compared with Mississippi Delta mudlumps - Implications for glaciotectonic models; A time-transgressive kinetostratigraphic sequence spanning 180° in a single section at Bradtville, Ontario, Canada; Thin-skinned glaciotectonic structures; Polyphase glaciotectonic deformation in the Contorted Drift of Norfolk; Morphological, structural and mechanical analysis of neoglacial ice-pushed ridges in Iceland;Glaciotectonics and surging glaciers: A correlation based on Vestspitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway; On the mechanics of glaciotectonic contortion of clays; The Halland Coastal Moraines: Are they end moraines or glaciotectonic ridges? Glaciotectonic unconformities in Pleistocene stratigraphy as evidence for the behaviour of former Scandinavian icesheets; Large-scale glaciotectonic deformation of soft sediments: A case study of a late Weichselian sequence in western Iceland; Sedimentation and deformation of the North Sea Drift Formation in the Happisburgh area, North Norfolk; Wet-sediment deformation of Quaternary and recent sediments in the Skardu Basin, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan; Glacially deformed diamictons in the Karakoram Mountains, northern Pakistan; Observations on glaciodynamic structures at the Main Stationary Line in western Jutland, Denmark; Sand-filled frost wedges in glaciotectonically deformed mo-clay on the island of Fur, Denmark; Glaciotectonics and its relationship to other glaciogenic processes; Bibliography of glaciotectonic references.
Biography
David G. Croot, Department of Geographical Sciences, Plymouth Polytechnic.
