Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Storrar, Robert, Ewertowski, Marek, Tomczyk, Aleksandra, Barr, Iestyn, Livingstone, Stephen, Ruffell, Alastair, Stoker, Ben, Evans, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Breiðamerkurjökull; Svalbard; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/25087/1/Accepted%20version.pdf; https://doi.org/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 largescale ancient esker systems, and a small number of modern an...