Sedimentary processes, facies, and accumulation rates at Alaskan temperate tidewater glaciers

• Main Author: Cooper, Jonathan P.
• Other Authors: Powell, Ross D., Department of Geology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Northern Illinois University 1984
• Subjects: Sedimentation and deposition; Facies (Geology) > Alaska; Tide-waters; Glaciers > Alaska; Glacier Bay; West Arm; glacier; glaciers; Tidewater; Alaska
• Online Access: https://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/18234

Bibliography: pages 274-280. Sixteen sediment cores and twenty-nine grab samples from the west arm of the Glacier Bay fjord system, southeast Alaska, have been studied to describe lithofacies and then evaluate processes and rates of sediment transport and deposition. Transport and deposition of sedi...