Glacial marine sedimentation : paleoclimatic significance / edited by John B. Anderson, Gail M. Ashley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, John B., 1944-

Ashley, Gail M. (Gail Mowry)

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 261.

Special paper / Geological Society of America ; 261

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine sediments.

Drift.

Paleoclimatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1991.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The papers in this collection are based on a symposium held at the 1988 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, with the objective of identifying sedimentary criteria and facies models that can be used to characterize the glacial-climate setting of ancient sedimentary sequences. Includes papers on Antarctica, Alaska, and Ellesmere Island, and a brief literature review.

Contents:

Sedimentary facies associated with Antarctica's floating ice masses

Facies distribution resulting from sedimentation under polar interglacial climatic conditions within a high-latitude marginal basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Laminated sediments in prodeltaic despoits, Glacier Bay, Alaska

Ice-proximal sediment accumulation rates in a temperate glacial fjord, southeastern Alaska

Grounding-line systems as second-order controls on fluctuations of tidewater termini of temperate glaciers

Glacial marine sedimentation from tidewater glaciers in the Canadian High Arctic

Sedimentology of late Pleistocene (Laurentide) deglacial-phase deposits, eastern Maine : an example of a temperate marine grounded ice-sheet margin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Glacial marine sedimentation.

OCLC:

858794563

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