Title: Glacial-marine sedimentation : paleoclimatic significance /
Authors: Anderson, John B., 1944-; Ashley, Gail M.
Publisher: Geological Society of America,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Marine sediments.; Drift.; Paleoclimatology.
Abstract: The papers in this collection are based on a symposium held at the 1988 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, with the objective of identifying sedimentary criteria and facies models that can be used to characterize the glacial-climate setting of ancient sedimentary sequences. Includes papers on Antarctica, Alaska, and Ellesmere Island, and a brief literature review.
Contents: Sedimentary facies associated with Antarctica's floating ice masses -- Facies distribution resulting from sedimentation under polar interglacial climatic conditions within a high-latitude marginal basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica -- Laminated sediments in prodeltaic despoits, Glacier Bay, Alaska -- Ice-proximal sediment accumulation rates in a temperate glacial fjord, southeastern Alaska -- Grounding-line systems as second-order controls on fluctuations of tidewater termini of temperate glaciers -- Glacial marine sedimentation from tidewater glaciers in the Canadian High Arctic -- Sedimentology of late Pleistocene (Laurentide) deglacial-phase deposits, eastern Maine : an example of a temperate marine grounded ice-sheet margin -- Structural control of deposition by Pleistocene tidewater glaciers, Gulf of Maine -- Seismic stratigraphy of glacial marine units, Maine inner shelf -- The Yakataga Formation; a late Miocene to Pleistocene record of temperate glacial marine sedimentation in the Gulf of Alaska -- The paleoclimatic setting of the late Paleozoic marine ice sheet in the Karoo Basin of southern Africa -- Comparisons in depositional style of "polar" and "temperate" glacial ice; Late Paleozoic Whiteout Conglomerate (West Antarctica) and late Proterozoic Mineral Fork Formation (Utah) -- Late Proterozoic (Sturtian) succession of the North Flinders Basin, South Australia; an example of temperate glaciation in an active rift setting -- Glacial marine sedimentation; Paleoclimatic significance; a discussion.