Preface

Acknowledgements

Illustrations


Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 What is Glacial Geology and Why is it Important?

1.2 The Aim and Structure of this Book


Chapter 2: Glaciations Around The Globe

2.1 The Antarctic Ice Sheet

2.2 Greenland in the Greenhouse

2.3 Southern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers: Patagonia and New Zealand

2.4 Northern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers: Alaska and Iceland

2.5 High-Altitude Glaciers: The Himalaya

2.6 Tropical Glaciers: The Cordillera Blanca, Peru

2.7 Arctic Polythermal Glaciers

2.8 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 3: Mass Balance and the Mechanisms of Ice Flow

3.1 Annual Mass Balance

3.2 The Mass Balance Gradient: The Glacial Driving Mechanism

3.3 Mechanisms of Ice Flow

3.4 The Principles of Basal Thermal Regime

3.5 Patterns and Rates of Ice Flow

3.6 Glacier Response to Climate Change

3.7 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 4: Glacier Hydrology

4.1 Glacier Hydrology

4.2 Sources of Glacial Meltwater

4.3 Storage of Water in Glaciers

4.4 Methods of Studying Glacier Hydrology

4.5 Glacier Hydrological Systems

4.6 Subglacial Water Pressure

4.7 Discharge Fluctuations

4.8 Glacial Meltwater Erosion

4.9 Summary

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Chapter 5: The Processes of Glacial Erosion

5.1 Glacial Abrasion

5.2 Glacial Quarrying

5.3 Estimating Rates of Glacial Erosion

5.4 Patterns of Glacial Erosion

5.5 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 6: Landforms of Glacial Erosion

6.1 Microscale Features of Glacial Erosion

6.2 Mesoscale Features of Glacial Erosion

6.3 Macroscale Features of Glacial Erosion

6.4 Landscapes of Glacial Erosion

6.5 Summary

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Chapter 7: Glacial Debris Entrainment and Transport

7.1 High-Level Debris Transport

7.2 Debris Entrainment

7.3 Low-Level Debris Transport

7.4 Debris Transfer Between Low and High Levels

7.5 Debris Transfer

7.6 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 8: Glacial Sedimentation on Land

8.1 Direct Glacial Sedimentation

8.2 Fluvial Sedimentation

8.3 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 9: Landforms of Glacial Deposition on Land

9.1 Ice-Marginal Moraines

9.2 Subglacial Landforms Formed by Ice or Sediment Flow

9.3 Glaciofluvial Ice-Marginal Landforms

9.4 Glaciofluvial Subglacial Landforms

9.5 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 10: Glacial Sedimentation in Water

10.1 Sedimentation in Lacustrine Environments

10.2 Sedimentation in Marine Environments

10.3 Distinguishing Glaciolacustrine and Glaciomarine Diamicts from Glacial Tills

10.4 Summary

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Chapter 11: Landforms of Glacial Deposition in Water

11.1 Glaciolacustrine Landforms

11.2 Glaciomarine Landforms

11.3 Summary

Suggested Reading


Chapter 12: Palaeoglaciology

12.1 The Methods Used in Palaeoglaciology

12.2 The Key Landforms Used in Palaeoglaciology

12.3 Former Subglacial Thermal Regimes

12.4 Palaeoglaciological Reconstructions

12.5 Summary

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