Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Storrar, Robert D., Ewertowski, Marek, Tomczyk, Aleksandra M., Barr, Iestyn D., Livingstone, Stephen J., Ruffell, Alastair, Stoker, Ben J., Evans, David J. A.
• Other Authors: EU-INTERACT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: glacier; Iceland; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12414; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12414; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12414; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/bor.12414

Eskers are useful for reconstructing meltwater drainage systems of glaciers and ice sheets. However, our process understanding of eskers suffers from a disconnect between sporadic detailed morpho‐sedimentary investigations of abundant large‐scale ancient esker systems, and a small number of modern a...