Glacier deforming-bed processes
By: guest editors, J. K. Hart and J. Rose
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 86
Publisher: Pergamon, Elsevier
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; Tarrytown, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Glaciers; Congresses; Glaciology; Glacial erosion
Notes: Papers originally presented at a symposium that was part of the XV INQUA Congress held in Durban, South Africa on Aug. 6th, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sediment deformation beneath glaciers and its coupling to the subglacial hydraulic system  -- G.S. Boulton, K.E. Dobbie, S. Zatsepin; title: Review of subglacial hydro-mechanical coupling, Trapridge Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada  -- U.H. Fischer, G.K.C. Clarke; title: Approaches to the study of glacier bed deformation  -- J. Hart, J. Rose; title: A ploughing model for the origin of weak tills beneath ice streams  -- S.M. Tulaczyk, R.P. Scherer, C.D. Clark; title: Micromorphological criteria for discriminating subglacial and glacimarine sediments  -- S. Carr; title: Extent and basal characteristics of the M'Clintock Channel Ice Stream  -- C.D. Clark, C.R. Stokes; title: Basal conditions beneath a soft-bedded polythermal surge-type glacier, Bakaninbreen, Svalbard -- T. Murray, P.R. Porter.; title: The influence of basal processes on the dynamic behaviour of cold-based glaciers  -- R.I. Waller; title: Direct shear tests of materials from a cold glacier  -- S.J. Fitzsimons ... [et al.]; title: Were deforming subglacial beds beneath past ice sheets really widespread? -- J.A. Piotrowski ... [et al.].