Sediment characteristics of some temperate glaciers
Abstract
Sub-environments of temperature alpine glaciers display distinctive sedimentary characteristics. Particle-size distribution, fabric, clast roundness, clast striations, and lithologic composition can distinguish between lodgment till, ablation drift, end-moraine till, recessional-moraine till, and stratified drift of South Cascade Glacier, Athabasca Glacier, and Mount Rainier glaciers.
- Publication:
-
Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975PhDT........53M
- Keywords:
-
- Glacial Drift;
- Glaciers;
- Lithology;
- Particle Size Distribution;
- Sediments;
- Striation;
- Geophysics