Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Tunnel valley formation beneath deglaciating mid-latitude ice sheets: Observations and modelling

JD Kirkham, KA Hogan, RD Larter, NS Arnold… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The geological record of landforms and sediments produced beneath deglaciating ice
sheets offers insights into inaccessible glacial processes. Large subglacial valleys formed …

Glacial erosion: status and outlook

RB Alley, KM Cuffey, LK Zoet - Annals of Glaciology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Glacier-erosion rates range across orders of magnitude, and much of this variation cannot
be attributed to basal sliding rates. Subglacial till acts as lubricating 'fault gouge'or 'sawdust' …

Permafrost degradation

D Streletskiy, O Anisimov, A Vasiliev - Snow and ice-related hazards, risks …, 2015 - Elsevier
Climatic changes over the last 50 years resulted in a decrease of permafrost extent, an
increase of permafrost temperature, and deepening of the active layer in numerous locations …

Sediment yield over glacial cycles: A conceptual model

G Antoniazza, SN Lane - Progress in Physical Geography …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The temporal variability in sediment export yield from glaciers over a timescale of multiple
glacial cycles (eg 1× 102− 1× 106 years) is of interest for a wide range of applications in …

[HTML][HTML] A model for interaction between conduits and surrounding hydraulically connected distributed drainage based on geomorphological evidence from Keewatin …

ELM Lewington, SJ Livingstone, CD Clark… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
We identify and map visible traces of subglacial meltwater drainage around the former
Keewatin Ice Divide, Canada, from high-resolution Arctic Digital Elevation Model …

Glacier melt runoff controls bedload transport in Alpine catchments

F Comiti, L Mao, D Penna, A Dell'Agnese… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research on factors affecting sediment regime in glacierized catchments under warming
climates is still scarce despite its societal relevance. In particular, coarse bedload transport …

Proglacial lakes in high mountain environments

JC Otto - Geomorphology of proglacial systems: landform and …, 2019 - Springer
Lakes are a characteristic feature of glacial landscapes. They are found in the vicinity of
current or past glaciers and ice sheets, in high alpine cirques, inner-alpine valleys as well as …