Essays about: "proglacial deformation"

Found 4 essays containing the words proglacial deformation.

  1. 1. Implications of a rapidly thinning ice-margin for annual moraine formation at Gornergletscher, Switzerland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Lukas Rettig; [2020]
    Keywords : Recessional moraines; Ice-marginal processes; Glacier retreat; Glacial geomorphology; Glacial sedimentology; Alpine glaciers; Swiss Alps; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : This study examines genetic processes and climatological significance of annual moraine formation in the foreland of Gornergletscher, a large alpine-valley glacier located in the southern Swiss Alps. A particular focus is set on moraine ridges that have been forming between 2007 and 2019, a period when the glacier has been subject to accelerated retreat and pronounced frontal thinning. READ MORE

  3. 2. A pre-LGM sandur deposit at Fiskarheden, NW Dalarna : sedimentology and glaciotectonic deformation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Anne-Cécile Flindt; [2016]
    Keywords : deformation; structures; sandur; glaciotectonic; glaciofluvial; fault-propagation fold; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Fiskarheden quarry, situated in NW Dalarna, central Sweden, reveal thick deposits of coarse-grained sediments of Scott type facies association; a sandur deposited in an ice-proximal proglacial environment. Preliminary OSL dating of the sandur sediments suggest that they are of a pre-Saalian age (>200 000 years). READ MORE

  4. 3. Proglacial deformation of glaciofluvial sediments during the Pomeranian deglaciation in the Neubrandenburg area, NE Germany

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Mattias Lindén; [2001]
    Keywords : local ice dome; proglacial deformation; glacial tectonics; Pomeranian deglaciation; NE Germany; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning: Genom att undersöka tre grustag i nordöstra Tyskland, Kreuzbruchhof, Fritscheshof och Spargelberg har jag försökt rekonstruera hur isen såg ut vid istidens slutfas. Syftet var att rekonstruera den senaste glaciala aktiviteten. READ MORE

  5. 4. A sedimentological study of glacial deposits in the upper Sjællandselv area, Jameson Land, East Greenland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Torbjörn Andersson; [1994]
    Keywords : geography; geology; sedimentology; glacial deposit; Sjællandselv area; Jameson Land; Greenland; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Summary: The fieldwork preceding this Master degree thesis took place in Jameson Land, East Greeniand, within the frame of the PONAM (Polar North Atlantic Margins; Late Cenozoic evolution) project. In central Jameson Land, a plateau area at approximately 500 m.a.s. READ MORE