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

• Published in: Geomorphology
• Main Authors: Cook, Simon, Graham, David J., Swift, Darrel A., Midgley, Nicholas G., Adam, William G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Basal ice; Glaciohydraulic supercooling; Ice-marginal sediments; Melt-out till; Quaternary; Regelation; Subglacial sediment; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1904; name=Earth-Surface Processes; Svínafellsjökull; Iceland
• Online Access: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/8415f180-ac7d-4d22-81b5-d629447c6b50; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.08.018

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...