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[Italic Page Numbers Indicate Major References] Abbot Ice Shelf, 4 Index [Italic page numbers indicate major references] Abbot Ice Shelf, 4 Burroughs Glacier, 52 Columbia Bay, 133 ablation, 102, 133 Butter Point, offshore canyons, 37 Columbia Falls delta, 120, 122 rates, 77, 84 conglomerates, 172, 174, 178, 183, season, 96 Call anna Group, 209 192, 193, 196, 203, 210, 213, surface, 2 calving, 2, 6, 9, 19, 70, 133, 134, 214, 218 Adams Inlet, 78 154, 224 Copley area, 216, 217 Addision, Maine, 119 embayment, 149, 153 Copper River, 165, 214 Adelaide Basin, 208 ice margin, 154 coquinas, 172, 174 Adelaide geosyncline, 207, 220 rate, 67, 77, 78, 80, 82, 86, 91 Cordaites, 186 Africa, southern, 181 waves, 71, 72 Crash site Group, 203 Agassiz ice cap, 96 Canadian High Arctic, 95 Crillon Glacier, 82 Alaska, 51 Cape Royds, 29 crustal shortening, 163 southeastern, 52, 61, 76 Cape St. Elias, 164 Cushing Glacier, 52 Alert station, Ellesmere Island, 96 Capley area, 210, 213, 215 cyclopels, 54, 88, 100, 102 alluvial cones, 67 Car Hill-Columbia Falls system, 121 cyclopsams, 54, 88, 100, 102 Amery Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 6 carbonates, 210 Anomalina glabrata, 167 bioclasic, 9 Damariscotta River, 149 Antarctic Peninsula, 4, 9, 11, 22, 24 Carroll Glacier, 52, 57 Daroo Basin, predepositional phase, northern, 2 Casco Bay, 147, 149 186 Antarctic Shelf, 201, 224 Cassidulina David Glacier, 20 Antarctica, 1,27 californica, 177 Deblois fan, 122 Apex Hill area, 208, 209, 213, 216, teretis, 167, 170 debris, 4, 16 217 Cayley Glacier, 22 alkaline volcanic, 29 Arctic Ocean basin, 103 Cenozoic, late, 170, 177 apron, 96 argillite, 183, 186, 193 Central High, 209 basal, 68, 88, 96 asynchroncity, 88 channels cohesionless flows, 41, 42, 44 Australia, South, 207 broad, 178 delivery, 4 Axel Heiberg Island, 102 gravels, 97 englacial, 4, 5, 23 mega-, 171 eolian, 39, 40, 46 Baffin Island, 87 subglacial, 88 flows, 33, 98, 112, 113, 119, 168, barnacles, 138 submarine, 174, 217 177 basins Charpentier Inlet, 78 glacial, 67, 71, 120, 171 active margin, 177 Cherry field delta, 120, 122, 123 granite, 29 Cherryfield-Pineo Ridge area, 120 glaciated, 80 ice-rafted, 37, 40, 42,45, 46, 152, Cherryfield system, 122 high-latitude marginal, 27 168 Chugach Mountains, 163 ice-contact, 81 iceberg-rafted, 71, 89, 91 Cibicides infilling, 62 quartzose, 40 Beacon Groups, 40 mckannai, 167 supraglacial, 4, 5, 23, 37 Beacon supergroup, 29 refulgens, 6 volcaniclastic, 47 bedload, 67, 71 clasts, 35, 97, 117, 120, 123, 166, deformation, 5, 109, 119, 163 fluvial, 72 168, 171, 183, 196, 200, 202, deglaciation, 102, 103, 109, 121, bedrock, 131, 144, 152, 154, 184, 204, 215 123, 133 186, 192 ice-rafted, 166 deltas, 108, 110, 117, 119 glaciated, 183 out-sized, 37 beheaded ice-contact, 129 metamorphic, 110 sedimentary, 35, 37, 39 compound, 129 plutonic, 110 clay, 6, 20, 33, 110 esker-fed ice-contact, 129 Bering Glacier, 165 blue, 138 glacier-fed, 58 Big Cottonwood Canyon, 192 content, 33 ice-contact, 82, 90, 129, 133 Big Cottonwood Formation, 203 sea-floor, 121 ice-margin glacial, 109 Billy Springs area, 211, 216 silty, 112, 147, 149 kettle, 129 biotite, 54 Clements Markham Inlet, 95, 96, 97, leeside, 129 102 bioturbation, 166 marine, 121, 123, 127, 129, 133, bivalves, 166 depositional mode, 97, 100 152 Bo 11a Bollana Formation, 213, 216 lithofacies, 97 outwash, 69, 129 Boorlog area, 208, 213, 215, 216 sedimentology, 97 ridge, 129 bottom currents, 186, 214, 219 climates deposition, 103, 112, 127 Bouma sequences, 216 polar desert, 96 deposits breccias, 32, 209 subpolar, 2 debris-flow, 97, 196 volcanic, 33 coal, 181 deglacial-phase, 107 Brunt Ice Shelf, 4 swamps, 188 flat-topped, 117 Bunganuc Bluff, 147 cobbles, 112, 113, 123 glacial, 123, 182 Burr Well area, 215, 219 Coburg Island, 102 glacial marine, 223, 224 Burra Group, 209, 218 College Fjord, 133 glacigenic, 198, 203 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/957660/spe261-bm.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 228 Index ice-front, 108, 120 Elphidiella hannai, 171 foresets, 119, 123, 129 ice-rafted, 97 Elphidium fossils, marine, 183 ice-tunnel, 108, 110, 121, 123 excavatum elavatum, 168, 171, 174 levee-overbank, 97 oregonense, 171 Gardner Lake system, 112, 121 marine fan, 109, 112, 121, 123 embayments, 28, 52, 127 gas, natural, 152, 154 meltwater stream, 225 subglacial, 4 gastropods, 166 outwash, 196 Emerald Silt Facies, 13, 149 Geike Inlet, 78 plume, 88 Epistominella pacifica, 168, 170 Generator Lake, Baffin Island, 131 prodeltaic, 51 Erebus Basin, 29, 45, 46 geometries, regional, 87 sediment gravity-flow, 88, 224 Erebus Ice Tongue, 132 George VI Ice Shelf, 4, 5,11,14,16, suspension, 97 erosion, 110 23, 24 turbidity-current, 99 glacial, 33, 209, 217 Georges Bank, 152 underflow, 88 eskers, 88, 109, 110, 119, 120, 121, Getz Ice Shelf, 4 depression, isostatic, 108 123 glaciation, 110, 160, 163, 165, 178, desert, polar, 96 estuaries, semi-enclosed, 108 182, 185, 188, 208 detritus, 117 Eurydesma, 181 temperate, 207 Devon Island ice cap, 96 evaporation, 28 tidewater, 177 diamictites, 112, 113, 119, 123, 160, Glacier Bay, Alaska, 51, 87, 88, 89, 167, 168, 170, 172, 174, 178, facies 100, 131, 133 181, 183, 184, 192, 196, 198, Buma A turbidite, 46 depositional processes, 54 200,202, 211, 214, 216, 218, distal turbidite, 45 fjord system, 61, 68 220, 225 distribution, 27 laminated sediments, 51 basal, 210 eolian saltation mode, 45 macrotidal regime, 54, 59 beds, 214 heterolithic, 193 melt season, 62 facies, 171, 174, 177, 184, 186 ice-rafted debris, 37, 42, 45 prodeltaic deposits, 51 massive, 204, 225 ice-shelf models, 14 sedimentation rates, 68 sequences, 186 lacustrine mudrock, 181 west arm, 79, 80 upper, 215 mudstone, 213, 216 Glacier Bay National Park and diamictons, 6, 11, 14, 20, 23, 24, 88, quartzose, 46 Preserve, 62, 76 89, 97, 128, 210 sedimentary, 1, 6, 31 climate, 78 debris-flow, 188 seismic, 142,154 grounding line systems, 80 facies, 223 transitions, 40 sediment yield, 80 massive, 183 Fairweather Range, 80, 82 termini movement, 78 diatoms, 6, 153 fans, 112 glaciers, 78, 88, 203, 204, 217 discharge, 58, 86 deltas, 97 ablation rates, 77 diurnal stream cycle, 58 grounding-line, 86, 88, 89, 90 advance, 78, 82, 84, 85, 87 glacial fluvial, 69 marine, 110, 112, 119, 121,123, atmospheric melting, 77 rainstorm, 89 128 deposition, 127 river, 122 morphology, 112 drainage, 14 seasonal, 89 sands, 186 drift, 39 sediment, 97 submarine, 108 flow, 67, 78 subglacial, 62 faunas, molluscan, 162 flow velocities, 78 supraglacial stream, 102 feldspar, 213 hanging, 80 Disraeli Fjord, 103 Ferrar Glacier, 36 isostasy, 78 dololutites, 214 Ferrar Group, 29 loading, 196 dolostone, 216, 218 Filchner Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 132 marine-ending, 76, 88, 91 downwasting, 138 Fimbul Ice Shelf, 4 marine environments, 137, 223 drainage, glacial, 14 Fitton Formation, 213 mass balance, 77 drift fjords, 53, 54, 62, 76, 88 melting, 67, 102 glacial, 39 erosion, 87 meltwater, 102 stratified, 144, 154 infills, 87 outlet, 4, 5, 9, 20, 23, 24, 40, 46, dropstones, 138, 195, 200, 201, 202, sediment source, 68 96, 202 210, 216, 219, 220 subpolar, 86 piedmont, 204 Dry Valleys, 28, 39 temperate, 68, 70, 86 polar, 102 Drygalski Ice Tongue, 4, 5, 20 temperate glacial, 59, 61 readvance, 78, 82, 89 trunk, 80 Drygalski Trough, 20, 21, 24 retreat, 61, 62, 69, 78, 82, 84, 89, flooding, 54 dumping, 86 97, 100, 108, 119 Flowers Hills, 201 Dwyka Basin, 181, 182, 185, 186, snouts, 96, 102 flows 187, 188 stratified complexes, 110 Dwyka Formation 181, 182, 186, 188 cohesionless debris, 41, 42, 44 subpolar, 102, 138 shelf facies, 183 density-modified grain, 42, 44 surging, 102 valley facies, 182 extensional, 77 temperate, 68, 75, 86, 89, 207, 224 glacial, 89 terminus, 86, 224 East Antarctic Ice Sheet, 20, 40 sandy grain, 119 terrestrial, 76 East Antarctica, 4 sediment gravity, 35, 40, 59, 69, thrusting, 96 eddy, anticyclonic, 29 71, 72, 203, 210, 219, 220 tidewater, 2, 4, 65, 68, 69, 95, 102, Eherenbergina hystrix, 9 foraminifera 127, 133, 138, 168, 177, 188 Ellesmere Island, 95, 96, 102, 103 benthic, 165 trunk, 78, 80 Ellsworth Mountains, 198, 201 planktic, 162 valley, 4, 5, 23, 24, 68 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/957660/spe261-bm.pdf by guest on 01 October 2021 Index 229 west arm, 80 mass dynamics, 4 Lamplugh glacier, 86 glacioeustasy, 138 masses, 1, 96, 224 landforms, 128, 133, 134 glacioisostasy, 138 mountain caps, 186, 188 submarine, 223 glauconites, 162 polar glacial, 191 Larsen Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 16, 23, global warming, 76, 80 rafting, 37, 39, 71, 72, 89, 166 24 Globigerina bulloides, 167, 174 recession, 220 Laurentide, 107 Globocassidulina retreat, 110, 133, 134, 152 Laurentide Ice Sheet, 119, 124, 129, crassa, 6 scouring, 174 134, 224 subglobosa, 6 streams, 5, 16, 202 Laurentide tidewater margin, 131 Glossopteris, 183, 198 temperate, 102, 191 Letlave clay, 152 Gondwana, 186 thrusting, 112 litharenites, volcanic, 32, 37 southwestern, 181 tongues, 2, 4, 5, 19, 20 lithofacies, 88,97, 119, 138 Gondwanaland glacial deposition, 198 tunnels, 108, 110, 112, 119, 120, subglacial, 88 Gondwanidium, 184 121, 123 Little Cottonwood Canyon, 192, 194 grabens, half, 28 ice sheets, 28, 86, 108, 123, 124, lonestones, 89 Graham Land coast, 4 138, 171, 177, 203, 204 218, Lorna Doone area, 208, 213, 215, grain flows, 33, 46 223 216 density-modified, 42, 44 grounded, 107, 186, 203 Lyndhurst Formation, 216 Grand Banks, 140 margin, 107 Granite Harbour region, 39, 40, 46 marine, 4,181, 186, 187 Machias Bay, 144 granites, 209, 211, 213 paleoclimatic setting, 181 Machias delta, 123 Grant Ice Cap, 97 retreat, 120, 121, 129 Mackay
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