Sedimentary signatures of basal ice formation and their preservation in ice-marginal sediments

• Main Authors: Simon J. Cook, David Graham, Darrel A. Swift, Nicholas G. Midgley, William G. Adam
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Geology; Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified; Basal ice; Glaciohydraulic supercooling; Ice-marginal sediments; Melt-out till; Quaternary; Regelation; Subglacial sediment; Svínafellsjökull; Iceland
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Sedimentary_signatures_of_basal_ice_formation_and_their_preservation_in_ice-marginal_sediments/9481055

Reconstruction of subglacial processes from sedimentological evidence is central to our understanding of glaciological conditions beneath former ice masses. At Svínafellsjökull, southeast Iceland, we assess the extent to which two different processes of basal ice formation (regelation and glaciohydr...