Atlas of submarine glacial landforms : modern, quaternary and ancient / edited by J. A. Dowdeswell [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dowdeswell, J. A., editor.

Canals, M. (Miquel), editor.

Jakobsson, Martin, editor.

Todd, Brian J. (Brian Jeremy), editor.

Dowdeswell, E. K., editor.

Hogan, K. A. (Kelly A.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glacial landforms.

Submarine topography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 618 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)

Other Title:

Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms

Place of Publication:

London : The Geological Society, [2016]

Contents:

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

section 1. Introduction. Introduction: an atlas of submarine glacial landforms

section 2. Acoustic methods. Mapping submarine glacial landforms using acoustic methods

section 3a. Fjords: landforms. Nordvestfjord: a major East Greenland fjord system

Thompson and Bradshaw sounds, Fiordland, New Zealand: a relict, mid-latitude, temperate glacier system

Mega-scale glacial lineations, Peel Sound, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Glacial lineations in Navy Board Inlet, Nunavut, Canada

Moat features, Amundsen Gulf, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Crag-and-tail features, Amundsen Gulf, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Crag-and-tail features: convergent ice flow through Eclipse Sound, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Crag-and-tail landforms in outer Rijpfjorden, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

Ice-sculpted bedrock in channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Submarine medial moraines in Hambergbukta, southeastern Spitsbergen

Recessional moraines in nearshore waters, northern Scotland

Terminal and recessional moraines in the fjords of southern Chile

Terminal moraines in the fjord basins of sub-Antarctic South Georgia

Moraine ridges in fjord-type, perialpine Lake Lucerne, central Switzerland

Little Ice Age terminal and retreat moraines in Kollerfjorden, NW Spitsbergen

Rhombohedral crevasse-fill ridges at the marine margin of a surging Svalbard ice cap

Annual moraine ridges in Tempelfjorden, Spitsbergen

Debris-flow lobes on the distal flanks of terminal moraines in Spitsbergen fjords

Fjord-mouth submarine moraines, SW Newfoundland

Landforms in a Pacific fjord system: Douglas Channel, British Columbia, Canada

Eskers formed at the beds of modern surge-type tidewater glaciers in Spitsbergen

Eskers in deglacial sediments of three Spitsbergen fjords

Long continuous dendritic eskers offshore of Southampton Island, northern Hudson Bay

Ice-proximal fans in Dexterity Fjord, Buchan Gulf, Baffin Island, Canadian Arctic

Relict proglacial deltas in Bradshaw and George sounds, Fiordland, New Zealand

Cyclic steps on a glacifluvial delta, Howe Sound, British Columbia

A Younger Dryas moraine ridge and fjord delta in Valldal, Norddalsfjorden, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Paraglacial landscapes in St George's Bay, Newfoundland, Canada

Stratified glacimarine basin-fills in West Greenland fjords

Possible iceberg-produced submarine terraces in Hambergbukta, Spitsbergen

Submarine gullies and an axial channel in glacier-influenced Courtauld Fjord, East Greenland

Submarine slides from the walls of Smeerenburgfjorden, NW Svalbard

Fjord-flank collapse and associated deformation in Aysén Fjord, Chile

Pockmarks in the fjords of Chilean Patagonia

Pockmarks in Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick, Canada

Kettle holes, 'dead-ice' topography and eskers on a lake floor in Telemark, southern Norway

Bouldery debris mantle deposited by cold-based ice offshore of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

Enigmatic ridges in Lake Vättern, Sweden

Postglacial tectonic structures and mass wasting in Lake Vättern, southern Sweden

Anthropogenic modification of a fjord: Bay of Islands, Newfoundland

Tidal power generation in the glaciated, macrotidal Minas Scour Trough, Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada

A Holocene volcanic knoll within a glacial trough, Antarctic Sound, northern Antarctic Peninsula

The Corossol Structure: a glaciated crater of possible impact origin in the northwestern Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada

section 3b. Fjords: landform assemblages. Assemblage of glacial and related landforms in the fjords of southern Chile

Deglacial landform assemblage records fast ice-flow and retreat, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

A glacial landform assemblage in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, eastern Canada

Landforms in Hvítárvatn, central Iceland, produced by recent advances of surging and non-surging glaciers

Glacial landform assemblages in Spitsbergen fjords from the last full-glacial, deglaciation and the late Holocene

Submarine landform assemblage for Svalbard surge-type tidewater glaciers

A tidewater glacier landform assemblage in Belcher Inlet, Canadian Arctic. section 4a. Continental shelf: landforms. The Laurentian Channel: a major cross-shelf trough in Atlantic Canada

Partly-filled U-shaped morphology of the Laurentian Channel, St Lawrence Estuary, Canada

Glacially eroded cross-shelf troughs surrounding Iceland from Olex data

Three cross-shelf troughs on the continental shelf of SW Greenland from Olex data

Malangsdjupet: a cross-shelf trough on the North Norwegian margin

Cross-shelf troughs in Central Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

Cross-shelf trough and ice-stream lineations in the 440 Ma Late Ordovician rocks of northern Africa mapped from high-resolution satellite imagery

Mega-scale glacial lineations in Marguerite Trough, Antarctic Peninsula

The bundle: a mega-scale glacial landform left by an ice stream, Western Bransfield Basin

Buried mega-scale glacial lineations in the Norwegian Channel from 3D seismic imagery

3D seismic imagery of mega-scale glacial lineations and flow-switching by ice streams on the Norwegian continental shelf

Buried subglacial landforms in the SW Barents Sea imaged using high-resolution P-Cable seismic data

Mega-scale glacial lineations and grounding-zone wedges in Prydz Channel, East Antarctica

Enigmatic needle-like seafloor features in the Bear Island Trough, central Barents Sea

Aligned glacitectonic rafts on the floor of the central Barents Sea

Lateral ice-stream shear-margin moraines on north Norwegian shelves

Submarine medial moraines and convergent ice flow, Scott Inlet, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Submarine drumlins on the continental shelf offshore of NW Ireland

Drumlins in the Gulf of Bothnia

Crag-and-tail features on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, West Antarctica

Glacial landforms in a hard bedrock terrain, Melville Bay, northwestern Greenland

Hill

hole pairs on the Norwegian continental shelf

Streamlined ridges and depressions in the glacial sediments of the Arendal Terrace, Norwegian Skagerrak

Pleistocene tunnel valleys in the North Sea Basin

Esker systems in the Gulf of Bothnia

Bedrock meltwater channels in Palmer Deep, Antarctic Peninsula

Small, deep shelf-basins and their sedimentary infill, western Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula

Subglacial meltwater channels in Marguerite Trough, western Antarctic Peninsula

Bedrock channels in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica

Ice-shelf basal morphology from an upward-looking multibeam system deployed from an autonomous underwater vehicle

Crescentic scours on palaeo-ice stream beds

Fan-like sediments on outer Haltenbanken, mid-Norwegian shelf

Glacier-fed outwash plain on the Pacific margin of Canada

Late Wisconsinan grounding-zone wedges, northwestern Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada

A set of grounding-zone wedges in Vestfjorden, North Norway

Grounding-zone wedges and mega-scale glacial lineations in Kveithola Trough, Barents Sea

Grounding-zone wedges on the western Svalbard shelf

Grounding-zone wedges on the West Greenland shelf imaged from multibeam and seismic data

Grounding-zone wedges on the northern Larsen shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

Geometry and volume of a middle shelf grounding-zone wedge in Ross Sea, Antarctica

Grounding-zone wedges and mega-scale glacial lineations in the Mertz Trough, East Antarctica

Grounding-zone wedges on Antarctic continental shelves

Seismic character of possible buried grounding-zone wedges in the Late Ordovician glacial rocks of Algeria

Possible 'lift-off moraines' at grounded ice-sheet margins, North Norwegian shelf edge

Skjoldryggen terminal moraine on the mid-Norwegian shelf

Large, buried glacial moraines revealed by TOPAS sub-bottom profiling, South Orkney Islands, South Atlantic Ocean

Arcuate moraines on the continental shelf NW of Ireland

Current-modified recessional-moraine ridges on the NW Spitsbergen shelf

Recessional moraines on the southern Scotian Shelf of Atlantic Canada

De Geer moraines on German Bank, southern Scotian Shelf of Atlantic Canada

Post-glacial sand drifts burying De Geer moraines on the continental shelf off North Norway

Glacial lineations and recessional moraines on the continental shelf of NE.

Greenland

Corrugation ridges in the Pine Island Bay glacier trough, West Antarctica

Crescentic submarine hills and holes produced by iceberg calving and rotation

Huge iceberg ploughmarks and associated corrugation ridges on the northern Svalbard shelf

Iceberg ploughmarks on the upper continental slope, South Carolina

Giant ploughmarks on the South Patagonian continental margin produced by Antarctic icebergs

Ploughmarks and pits on the Chatham Rise: a record of deep-keeled Antarctic icebergs at 43° 20' S

Iceberg ploughmarks on Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic

Iceberg

seabed interaction on northwestern Makkovik Bank, Labrador Shelf, Canada

Iceberg ploughmarks in the SW Barents Sea imaged using high-resolution P-Cable 3D seismic data

Unusual iceberg ploughmarks on the Norwegian continental shelf

Deep-water iceberg ploughmarks on Hovgaard Ridge, Fram Strait

Deep iceberg ploughmarks in the central Arctic Ocean

Iceberg ploughmarks and associated sediment ridges on the southern Weddell Sea margin

Three-dimensional seismic imagery of deeply buried iceberg ploughmarks in North Sea sediments

Trawl marks, iceberg ploughmarks and possible whale-feeding marks, Barents Sea

Pockmarks in the SW Barents Sea and their links with iceberg ploughmarks

Pockmarks on the Mendeleev Rise, central Arctic Ocean

Mud volcanoes and ice-keel ploughmarks, Beaufort Sea shelf, Arctic Canada

Sea-ice ploughmarks in the eastern Laptev Sea, East Siberian Arctic shelf

The three-dimensional shape of sea ice revealed by multibeam sonar

Seafloor terraces and semi-circular depressions related to fluid discharge in Stockholm Archipelago, Baltic Sea

Cold-water coral reefs and glacial landforms from Sula Reef, mid-Norwegian shelf

Cold-water coral reefs in the Hola glacial trough off Vesterålen, North Norway

Permafrost patterns in the SE Laptev Sea, East Siberian Arctic Ocean

Seafloor kettle holes in Orleans Trough, Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. section 4b. Continental shelf: landform assemblages. Assemblage of buried and seabed tunnel valleys in the central North Sea: from morphology to ice-sheet dynamics

Ice-flow and meltwater landform assemblages in the Gulf of Bothnia

Ice-stream landform assemblage in Kveithola, western Barents Sea margin

Landform assemblage produced by ice-grounding events on the Yermak Plateau

Assemblages of submarine landforms in the glacial troughs of the northern Barents Sea, east of Svalbard

A subglacial landform assemblage on the outer shelf of M'Clure Strait, Canadian Arctic, ploughed by iceberg keels

Landform assemblage produced by the Biscoe Trough ice stream, northern Antarctic Peninsula

Submarine landform assemblage produced beneath the Dotson

Getz palaeo-ice stream, West Antarctica

A glacial landform assemblage from an inter-ice stream setting in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

Glacial landform assemblage reveals complex retreat of grounded ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

section 5. Continental slope: landforms. Barra Fan: a major glacial depocentre on the western continental margin of the British Isles

Glacigenic debris-flows observed in 3D seismic high-resolution seafloor imagery, Faroe

Shetland Channel, NE Atlantic

Mid-latitude complex trough-mouth fans, Laurentian and Northeast fans, eastern Canada

Evolution of Andfjorden Trough-Mouth Fan, Norwegian Sea: buried glacigenic debris-flows and mega-scale glacial lineations

Glacigenic debris-flows on the Bear Island Trough-Mouth Fan, Barents Sea margin

Deeply buried glacigenic debris-flows imaged in 3D seismic data from early Quaternary sediments of the northern North Sea

Storfjorden Trough-Mouth Fan, Barents Sea margin

Glacigenic debris-flow deposits, Storfjorden Fan

Debris-flow deposits on the West Antarctic continental slope

Components of an Antarctic trough-mouth fan: examples from the Crary Fan, Weddell Sea

Ice-sheet related landforms at the continental shelf edge, Albatross Bank, Alaska

Glacially related gullies on the upper continental slope, SW Barents Sea margin

Submarine gullies on the southern Weddell Sea slope, Antarctica

Channels and gullies on the continental slope seaward of a cross-shelf trough, Labrador margin, eastern Canada

Chatham Fan and adjacent upper Baranof Fan channels and levee, US Gulf of Alaska margin

Cascades and plunge pools on the continental slope of the Gulf of Alaska

An ultrahigh-latitude submarine channel: Northern Chukchi Rise

Contourite drifts and canyon-channel systems on the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin

Ocean-current controlled sedimentation: the Lofoten Contourite Drift, Norwegian Sea

Submarine mass movements affecting contourites on the continental slope offshore of the Lofoten Islands, North Norway

Slope instability along the western margin of the Antarctic Peninsula

Large sediment drifts on the upper continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula

A large, glacially modified, shelf-edge canyon, Scotian Shelf, Atlantic Canada

Canyons and slides on the continental slope seaward of a shallow bank, Labrador margin, eastern Canada

Canyons and slope instability on the Lofoten

Vesterålen continental margin, North Norway

The Andøya Canyon, Norwegian Sea

Submarine spreading in the Storegga Slide, Norwegian Sea

Shelf-edge slope failure and reef development: Trænadjupet Slide, mid-Norwegian shelf

Geomorphology of the huge Hinlopen

Yermak landslide on the northern Svalbard margin

Gebra Slide: glacial and tectonic controls on recurrent submarine landsliding off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

section 6. Fjord-shelf-slope: landsystems. Glacial sediment and landform record offshore NW Scotland: a fjord

shelf

slope transect through a Late Quaternary mid-latitude ice-stream system

Submarine glacial landforms on the Bay of Fundy

northern Gulf of Maine continental shelf

Landforms characteristic of inter-ice stream settings on the Norwegian and Svalbard continental margins

Retreat patterns and dynamics of the former Bear Island Trough Ice Stream

Submarine glacial-landform distribution across the West Greenland margin: a fjord

slope transect through the Uummannaq system (70-71° N)

A glacier-influenced turbidite system and associated landform assemblage in the Greenland Basin and adjacent continental slope

Submarine glacial landform distribution in the central Arctic Ocean shelf

slope

basin system

The seafloor imprint of the Gerlache

Boyd Ice Stream (65-62° S), northern Antarctic Peninsula

Submarine glacial-landform distribution along an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream: a shelf

slope transect through the Marguerite Trough system (66-70° S)

Submarine glacial-landform distribution across the West Antarctic margin, from grounding line to slope: the Pine Island

Thwaites ice-stream system

Submarine glacial landforms on the cold East Antarctic margin

The Hirnantian glacial landsystem of the Sahara: a meltwater-dominated system

section 7. Conclusion. The variety and distribution of submarine glacial landforms and implications for ice-sheet reconstruction

section 8. Glossary, cumulated bibliography and index. Glossary of glaciated continental margins and related geoscience methods

Cumulated bibliography

Geographical index

Subject index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-611) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-78620-270-0

OCLC:

979424024