Ice-sheet grounding-zone wedges (GZWs) on high-latitude continental margins

CL Batchelor, JA Dowdeswell - Marine Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Grounding-zone wedges (GZWs) are asymmetric sedimentary depocentres which form
through the rapid accumulation of glacigenic debris along a line-source at the grounding …

[BUKU][B] Glaciers and glaciation

D Benn, DJA Evans - 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Ice-sheet dynamics and ice streaming along the coastal parts of northern Norway

D Ottesen, CR Stokes, L Rise, L Olsen - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, regional and high-resolution bathymetric data are used to reconstruct the
pattern and dynamics of ice-sheet flow in the fjord and shelf areas of northern Norway …

Submarine glacial landforms and rates of ice-stream collapse

JA Dowdeswell, D Ottesen, J Evans… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rate of deglacial ice-sheet retreat across polar continental shelves, and possible ice-
stream collapse and sea-level rise, has been much debated. High-resolution imagery of …

Size, shape and spatial arrangement of mega‐scale glacial lineations from a large and diverse dataset

M Spagnolo, CD Clark, JC Ely… - Earth surface …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mega‐scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are a characteristic landform on ice stream beds.
Solving the puzzle of their formation is key to understanding how ice interacts with its bed …

The seismic architecture and geometry of grounding-zone wedges formed at the marine margins of past ice sheets

JA Dowdeswell, EMG Fugelli - Bulletin, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Grounding-zone wedges form where halts of decades to centuries during ice-sheet retreat
across polar shelves allow sediment buildup at the grounding zone through delivery of …

Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf: Implications for geology, oceanography, and glaciology

FO Nitsche, SS Jacobs, RD Larter… - Geochemistry …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Amundsen Sea continental shelf is one of the most remote areas of coastal Antarctica
and was relatively unexplored until the late 1980s. Over the last two decades, increased …

The variety and distribution of submarine glacial landforms and implications for ice-sheet reconstruction

JA Dowdeswell, M Canals, M Jakobsson, BJ Todd… - 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Glacimarine processes affect about 20% of the global ocean today, and this area expanded
considerably under cyclical full-glacial conditions during the Quaternary (Fig. 1)(Dowdeswell …

Dynamics of the Late Weichselian ice sheet on Svalbard inferred from high‐resolution sea‐floor morphology

DAG Ottesen, JA Dowdeswell, JY Landvik, J Mienert - Boreas, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution bathymetric map** of the fjords and continental shelf around the Svalbard
archipelago shows an extensive pattern of large‐and medium‐scale submarine landforms …

Northeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and climate

N Frank, A Freiwald, ML Correa, C Wienberg… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
U-series age patterns obtained on reef framework–forming cold-water corals collected over
a nearly 6000-km-long continental margin sector, extending from off Mauritania (17° N; …