Proglacial lakes: character, behaviour and geological importance

JL Carrivick, FS Tweed - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Proglacial lakes are ubiquitous within the Quaternary record and can provide exceptional
breadth and depth of palaeoenvironmental information. Present deglaciation is increasing …

The impact of glaciers on mountain erosion

F Herman, F De Doncker, I Delaney… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Glaciers and ice sheets erode mountains and produce vast quantities of sediments that are
delivered to rivers and oceans, impacting global sediment and biogeochemical balances …

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

DH Shugar, A Burr, UK Haritashya, JS Kargel… - Nature climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Glacial lakes are rapidly growing in response to climate change and glacier retreat. The role
of these lakes as terrestrial storage for glacial meltwater is currently unknown and not …

The extreme yet transient nature of glacial erosion

H Patton, A Hubbard, J Heyman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ice can sculpt extraordinary landscapes, yet the efficacy of, and controls governing, glacial
erosion on geological timescales remain poorly understood and contended, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Ice streams in the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Identification, characteristics and comparison to modern ice sheets

M Margold, CR Stokes, CD Clark - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review and synthesis of ice streams in the Laurentide
Ice Sheet (LIS) based on a new map** inventory that includes previously hypothesised ice …

Modelling glacier-bed overdeepenings and possible future lakes for the glaciers in the Himalaya—Karakoram region

A Linsbauer, H Frey, W Haeberli, H Machguth… - Annals of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Surface digital elevation models (DEMs) and slope-related estimates of glacier thickness
enable modelling of glacier-bed topographies over large ice-covered areas. Due to the …

Glacier change and glacial lake outburst flood risk in the Bolivian Andes

SJ Cook, I Kougkoulos, LA Edwards, J Dortch… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
Glaciers of the Bolivian Andes represent an important water resource for Andean cities and
mountain communities, yet relatively little work has assessed changes in their extent over …

Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes

SJ Cook, DJ Quincey - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2015 - esurf.copernicus.org
Supraglacial, moraine-dammed and ice-dammed lakes represent a potential glacial lake
outburst flood (GLOF) threat to downstream communities in many mountain regions. This …

Improving the accuracy of glacial lake volume estimation: A case study in the Poiqu basin, central Himalayas

M Qi, S Liu, K Wu, Y Zhu, F **e, H **, Y Gao, X Yao - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Lake volume is a critical parameter in the prediction of potential flood volume and peak
discharge in the risk assessment of glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). As existing volume …

The empirical basis for modelling glacial erosion rates

SJ Cook, DA Swift, MP Kirkbride, PG Knight… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glaciers are highly effective agents of erosion that have profoundly shaped Earth's surface,
but there is uncertainty about how glacial erosion should be parameterised in landscape …