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Index Page numbers in italic, e.g. 221, signify references to figures. Page numbers in bold, e.g. 60, denote references to tables. Adventure Subglacial Trench 220-221,221 structure 156 Alaska surface strain-rates 154-155, 154, 155, 156 Bering Glacier 60, 68, 75 tephra layer 149, 150, 151,152, 156 Black Rapids Glacier 172, 172, 173 thrust faults 153 Burroughs Glacier 60 Lambert Glacier 61, 72 Columbia Glacier 172, 173 Meserve Glacier 60, 181, 184, 184, 187, 189 Gulkana Glacier 60, 73 North Masson Range 116 Hubbard Glacier 75 South Masson Range 116 Kaskawulsh Glacier 60 South Shetland Islands 148 Malaspina Glacier 60, 68, 75 Suess Glacier, Taylor Valley 182, 187, 189 Phantom Lake 69 Taylor Glacier 11 Spencer Glacier 205 Taylor Valley 182 Twin Glacier 60 Transantarctic Mountain range 221 Variegated Glacier 61, 65, 67, 68, 76, 76, 86 Wordie Ice Shelf 61 deformation history 90, 92, 94 Ards Peninsula, Northern Ireland 307 shear zones 72, 75, 75 argillans, definition 256 strain 88, 89, 92, 94 Arrhenius relation 34 subglacial till deformation 172 Asgard Range, Antarctica 182 surging 86, 87 Astro Glacier, Canada 69 velocity 88, 89 Austerdalsbreen, Norway 60 Worthington Glacier 61, 65 Austre Broggerbreen, Svalbard 70 Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica 61 Austre Lov+nbreen, Svalbard 70, 77 ammonium concentration, Greenland Ice Sheet Austre Okstindbreen, Norway 205 15, 16, 20 Austria anisotropy of ice Hintereisferner 60 annealing 101, 104, 106, 107, 111, 112 Langtaufererjochferner 60 c-axis orientation 100-104, 101, 103, 104, 105-107, Pasterze Glacier, Austria 159-160 106, 111 ablation rate 160 experimental procedure 100 ductile shear zones 162 orientation 100-104, 105-107 extensional allochthon 159-160, 165, 166-167 shear-compression behaviour 102, 108-111, 108, folding 162, 163 109, 110, 111 foliation 162, 163 strain-compression behaviour 101, 102, 105, 111 glaciology 160-161,161 Antarctica shear-extensional fractures 165 Amery Ice Shelf 61 structures 165-166 Asgard Range 182 tension gashes 165 Belgica Subglacial Highlands 221-223, 225 thrust faults 162-165, 164 Central Masson Range 116, 117 Pasterzenkees Glacier 60 David Range 116 Axel Heiberg Island, Canada 243 East Antarctic Ice Sheet 61, 217-218 Astro Glacier 69 radar study 218-220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 227-228 Thompson Glacier 68, 69, 77, 169 underlying sediments 220-221,227 White Glacier 60, 65, 69 Fearn Hill grid 116, 117, 119 Wreck Glacier 69 Ferguson Peak 116, 117 Ferrar Glacier 60 Bakaninbreen, Svalbard 61, 68 Framnes Mountains 65, 115, 116 Barnes Ice Cap, Canada 60, 61, 65 George VI Ice Shelf 61 Bas Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland 73 Ice Stream B 61, 172, 173, 272-275 bedding, definition 261 Ice Stream C 172, 174, 175 Belgica Subglacial Highlands, Antarctica 221-223, 225 Ice Stream D 172, 173 Berendon Glacier, Canada 60 Johnsons Glacier, Livingstone Island 147, 156-157 Bering Glacier, Alaska 60, 68, 75 crevasses 153-154 Bjerrum defects 44 deformation 150-154, 156 Bjornbo Gletscher, Greenland 60 foliation 152 Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska motion 156 subglacial till deformation 172, 172, 173 sedimentary stratification 149, 150-151, 150, blind thrusts 67 151, 152 Blue Glacier, USA 60, 73 setting 147-149, 148, 149 subglacial till deformation 172 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/4525266/9781862394247_backmatter.pdf by guest on 28 September 2021 338 INDEX boudinage 71-72, 71, 115-116, 133-134 crevasses 66-68, 74 deformation processes 131-133 development 61 development 117-119, 118 en dchelon 74, 75 finite difference model 122-125 formation 60, 61 gas-filled cavities 184 Cwm Idwal, Wales 321-322, 322 geometric constraints 119-120, 121, 127-128, 127 glacio-tectonic map 326 high grade metamorphic rocks 133 grain-size data 327 ice flow model 119-122 moraine-mound formation 321,323, 323, 331, investigations 60 332, 333 pressure distribution 131,132 depositional model 330-331 rheological control 129-131 facies 327-328 stress distribution 128-129, 129, 130 morphology 324-326, 325 studies 116 previous interpretation 328-330 Boulton-Hindmarsh rheology 318 thrust moraines 331-333 Breiam6rkurj6kull, Iceland 174 topographic survey 322-324 subglacial till deformation thickness 172, 173 Cwm Cneifion, Wales 322, 322, 323, 329 brittle deformation of sediments 246, 247, 261 Burroughs Glacier, Alaska 60 Danish North Sea deformation history 303-304 geological setting 293-295, 294 Canada glaciotectonic deformation 293 Astro Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island 69 seismic database 295, 295 Axel Heiberg Island 243 seismic profiles 296, 297, 299 Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island 60, 61, 65 thrust mechanism 303 Beredon Glacier, British Columbia 60 thrust structures Elliot Lake 253, 255 architecture 295-299, 298 Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island 60 geographical extent 298, 299-302, 300, 301 Kaskawulsh Glacier 60 subglacial valleys 302 Mohawk Bay 251, 252, 253 substrate lithology 302 Nova Scotia 249-253, 250 thrust timing 302-303 Phillips Inlet glaciers, Ellesmere Island 61 David Range, Antarctica 116 Saskatchewan 308 De Lutte, Netherlands 275 Saskatchewan Glacier, Alberta 60, 65 deformable bed hypothesis 1 Thompson Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island 68, 69, deformation history 77, 169 analysis methodology 86-87 White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island 60, 65, 69, modelling assumptions 87-89 76, 77 strain rate fields 89 Wreck Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island 69 structural assemblages carbon dioxide concentration, Greenland Ice Sheet distal ice 93-95, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 intermediate ice 91-93 Carpathian Mountains 160, 165, 166 proximal ice 90-91 cavity formation relationship 188 surge cycle 89-90 c-axis fabrics 97-98, 112 Variegated Glacier, Alaska 88, 90, 92, 94 c-axis orientation of ice 100-104, 101, 103, 104, velocity fields 89 105-107, 106, 111 deformation, subglacial 4-5, 259-260, 275 Central Masson Range, Antarctica 116, 117 brittle shear-zone structures 266, 266, 267 Charles Rabots Bre, Norway 60 definition of terms 261 Chile ductile shear-zone structures 266-267, 266, 267 Glaciar Universidad 60 macrostructure development 263-267 Ventisquero Soler Glacier, Patagonia 61 microstructure development 263-267 Chimney Bluffs, New York State, USA progressive simple shear 262-263,262, 263, 264, 265 glacial sediments 251, 253 pure and simple shear strains 262, 267-269, 268, 271 chlorine concentration, Greenland Ice Sheet 19, 19 Reidel shears 265, 266 cleavage, definition 261 relative intensity 269-271 cleavage zones 72 sheared clay in till 271,273 coaxial deformation, definition 261 structural style 265-267 Coire a' Cheud-chnoic, Scotland 327, 331,331 tension veins 271-272, 273 Columbia Glacier, Alaska theoretical model 260-263 subglacial till deformation thickness 172, 173 thickness of layer 272-275 compressive flow regimes transposed foliation 269, 272, 273 beneath an ice-fall 73 ice cores 24-37, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 terminal lobes 73-75 ice crystals 24, 27-32, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 Coulomb-plastic flow 171, 174-175, 177 stratigraphy 25-27, 26 crevasse traces 74, 75 temperature 34, 36 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/4525266/9781862394247_backmatter.pdf by guest on 28 September 2021 INDEX 339 deuterium data, Greenland Ice Sheet 16, 20 glaciers diapirs 192, 193 as analogues of rock deformation 62-63 di-electric profile (DEP) conductivity, Greenland Ice blue ice 116-117, 123 Sheet 15, 16 bubbly ice 116-117, 123 diffusion creep 50 characteristic structures 73-76 domain, definition 256 compressive flow 262 dropstones 270, 270 confluence investigations 60 drumlins 307, 308 crevass trace 66 formation 307-308, 316-317 cumulative strain 62-63, 63, 87 basal sliding 311-312 velocity-gradient method 65 bedform stability 308-309 debris transport and deposition 77-78, 79 effective pressure 310 deformation 63-68 growth rate 315-316, 315, 316 histories 76 Hindmarsh model 309, 316 measurement 65 instability condition 314, 314, 317 numerical methods 65 linear stability analysis 312-314 effect of subglacial sediment 187-189 subglacial bedforms 309-312, 310 flow 3-4 till rheology 310-311, 317-318 flow modelling 135, 144-145 ductile deformation, definition 261 crevasses 137-142, 141 ductile deformation of sediments 246, 247 deposition-transport-exposure 142-144, 143, 144 dynamic hydraulic conductivity of subglacial field site 136-137 sediments 235-236, 237, 238, 239 methodology 136-137 dynamics, definition 261 strain rate 137, 139, 142 velocity 137, 139 East Antarctic Ice Sheet 61, 217-218 Piedmont-type 68, 73 radar study 218-220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 227-228 polythermal 67, 68 underlying sediments 220-221,227 strain-related structures 66-73 East Carpathian orogen 165, 166 structure 3-4 Elliot Lake, Canada surge-type 66, 68-69, 86 glacial sediments 253, 255 tectonic processes, investigation 61 en dchelon crevasses 74, 75 thrust faults 66-67 extensional flow regimes 73 glaciology history 1, 59-62 structural investigations 60-61 fabric, definition 261 glaciotectonic deformation 294 Fearn Hill grid, Antarctica 116, 117, 119 Danish North Sea 293-295, 294 Ferguson Peak, Antarctica 116, 117 deformation history 303-304 Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica 60 seismic database 295, 295 finite strain, definition 261 seismic profiles 296, 297, 299 flow-induced mixing, Greenland Ice Sheet 18-20 substrate lithology 302 folding deformation 68-69, 68 thrust timing 302-303 chevron 68 thrust mechanism 303 Greenland Ice Sheet 18-20 thrust structures intrafolial 68 architecture 295-299, 298 isoclinal 68 geographical extent 298, 299-302, 300, 301 parallel 68 subglacial valleys 302 similar 68 glaciotectonics
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