Structures and deformation in glaciers and ice sheets

SJA Jennings, MJ Hambrey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The aims of this review are to:(a) describe and interpret structures in valley glaciers in
relation to strain history; and (b) to explore how these structures inform our understanding of …

Glacial geological studies of surge-type glaciers in Iceland—Research status and future challenges

Ó Ingólfsson, ÍÖ Benediktsson, A Schomacker… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Surging glaciers are potential analogues for land-terminating palaeo-ice streams and
surging ice sheet lobes, and research on surge-type glaciers is important for understanding …

Over 400 previously undocumented Svalbard surge-type glaciers identified

WR Farnsworth, Ó Ingólfsson, M Retelle… - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
Identifying glaciers that exhibit surge-type behavior is important when using evidence of ice
front fluctuations as a proxy for reconstructing past climate oscillations. This study identifies …

Glacier sliding, seismicity and sediment entrainment

BP Lipovsky, CR Meyer, LK Zoet, C McCarthy… - Annals of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The evolution of glaciers and ice sheets depends on processes in the subglacial
environment. Shear seismicity along the ice–bed interface provides a window into these …

Formation of crevasse‐squeeze ridges at Trygghamna, Svalbard

D Ben‐Yehoshua, N Aradóttir… - Earth Surface …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Crevasse‐squeeze ridges (CSRs) are landforms that have been unequivocally linked to
surge‐type glaciers. The formation of CSRs has been discussed since they were first …

Dynamics of former ice lobes of the southernmost Patagonian Ice Sheet based on a glacial landsystems approach

CM Darvill, CR Stokes, MJ Bentley… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructions of former ice masses from glacial geomorphology help to constrain the
nature and timing of glaciation in relation to climatic forcing. This paper presents a new …

[HTML][HTML] 3D morphometry of De Geer Moraines and Crevasse-Squeeze Ridges: Differentiating between pushing and squeezing mechanisms from remotely sensed …

GE Rivers, RD Storrar, AH Jones, AEK Ojala - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract De Geer Moraines (DGM) and Crevasse-Squeeze Ridges (CSR) are important
landforms that can provide useful insights regarding palaeo-glacial processes. Specifically …

Quantification of historical landscape change on the foreland of a receding polythermal glacier, Hørbyebreen, Svalbard

MW Ewertowski, DJA Evans, DH Roberts, AM Tomczyk… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
The assessment of multidecadal scale change in a polythermal glacial landsystem in the
high Arctic is facilitated by a quantitative approach that utilises time series of aerial …

[HTML][HTML] Fifty years of tidewater glacier surface elevation and retreat dynamics along the south-east coast of Spitsbergen (Svalbard Archipelago)

J Kavan, GD Tallentire, M Demidionov, J Dudek… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tidewater glaciers on the east coast of Svalbard were examined for surface elevation
changes and retreat rate. An archival digital elevation model (DEM) from 1970 (generated …

Glacial geomorphology of the terrestrial margins of the tidewater glacier, Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard

MW Ewertowski, DJA Evans, DH Roberts… - Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A 1: 4000 scale map of the terrestrial margins of the foreland of
Nordenskiöldbreen depicts a polythermal glacial landsystem containing a record of the …