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Abbot , 4 Burroughs , 52 Columbia Bay, 133 , 102, 133 Butter Point, offshore , 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 , 96 Canadian High Arctic, 95 Crillon Glacier, 82 Alaska, 51 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 163 ice-contact, 81 -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, , 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 -fed ice-contact, 129 Bering Glacier, 165 blue, 138 glacier-fed, 58 Big Cottonwood , 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 , 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 -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 , 133 glacigenic, 198, 203

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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 -overbank, 97 oregonense, 171 Gardner 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 , 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 , 88, 109, 110, 119, 120, 121, Getz Ice Shelf, 4 , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 facies, 182 extensional, 77 temperate, 68, 75, 86, 89, 207, 224 glacial, 89 terminus, 86, 224 East Antarctic , 20, 40 sandy grain, 119 terrestrial, 76 , 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

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west arm, 80 mass dynamics, 4 Lamplugh glacier, 86 glacioeustasy, 138 masses, 1, 96, 224 , 128, 133, 134 glacioisostasy, 138 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 , 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 , 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 Glacier, 40 gravel, 52, 98, 112, 119, 128, 129, temperate, 107 Maine 138, 149, 152, 168, 183 terrestrial, 4, 186 eastern, 107 clasts, 120 ice shelves, 2, 4, 6, 76, 153, 186, southwestern, 127, 132 sandy, 119 202, 203 Maine inner shelf, 137 gravity flows, sediment, 59 anchoring, 201 deglacial evolution, 152 Great Hill, 127 confined, 4 depositional sequences, 152 Great Pond Esker, 120 detachment, 201 facies units, 142,154 grounding lines, 76, 80, 86, 88, 91, embayed, 4 Malaspina Glacier, 121, 122, 123, 138, 152, 202 floating, 131, 202 123, 133, 165 Gulf of Alaska, 46, 80, 159, 201 fringing, 2, 4 Marguerite Bay, 11, 16, 24 continental shelf, 61, 160 model, 202 marine rock flour, 88, 91 eastern, 160 retreat, 24 matrix, 117, 200 evolution, 177 sedimentary facies, 6 McBride Glacier, 62, 63, 81, 82, 86 Gulf of Maine, 110, 127, 144, 152, temperate, 154 climate, 62, 71 153 terrigenous sediment, 9 retreat, 67 , 39, 63, 219 McBride Inlet, 63, 65, 69, 70, 71, 87 Hamilton Creek member, 211 calving, 86, 89, 203 accumulation rates, 67 Haplophragmoides spp., 167, 170 debris-loaded, 188 McBride Inlet Proximal basin, 71 Harricana-Lake McConnell complex, dumping 37 McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 27, 224 120 free-floating, 40 bathymetry, 29 Hawker Group, 210 jams, 219 climate, 28, 47 Heber quadrangle, 195 rafting, 67 lithofacies, 32, 40, 46 Heritage Range, 198, 203 Icy Bay, Alaska, 131, 163, 164, 165, sea floor, 29 Heysen Supergroup, 208 168, 177 sediment source, 29 High Salinity Shelf Water, 29 , 185 tidal currents, 29 Hugh Miller Inlet, 78 isostasy, glacial, 78 water circulation, 29 , 28 megaclasts, 193, 203 James , 11, 16 melting, 2, 39, 78, 103, 112, 133, ice Johns Hopkins Inlet, 78 204 active, 112 Joinville Island, 16 atmospheric, 77 advance, 128, 209 jokulhlaups, 89 basal, 14, 20 basal, 23, 96, 102 Basin, 144, 145 rates, 4, 14 calving, 133 seasonal, 2, 58 caps, 96, 103, 204 Kalahari basin, 183 meltout, 67, 72, 86, 88, 219 debris-rich, 96, 154 Karoo Basin, Africa, 181, 225 supraglacial, 203 depositional style, 191 glacial phrases, 185 meltwater, 24, 28, 40, 51, 58, 59, 62, drainage, 4 grounded ice-sheet phase, 186 68, 88, 96, 102, 108, 119, 121, floating, 165, 202, 203, 219 ice shelf phase, 186 124, 134, 160, 164, 177, 178, flow, 119, 120 mountain ice cap phase, 187 186, 203, 211, 216, 218, 220 fluctuations, 109 shelf facies, 183 basal, 133 fluvial, 110 valley facies, 182 channels, 103, 113 glacial, 4, 24, 72, 119, 120, 139, Karoo Supergroup, 181 deposits, 204, 220 152, 191, 210, 219, 220 Kayak Island, 165 discharge, 65, 89, 164, 202, 224 grounded, 131 flow, 113 liftoff, 152 Labrador, 140 flux, 46 loading, 108 Laika Glacier, 102 glacial, 102, 121, 129 margin, 110, 121, 129, 154, 177 Lake Hazen, 96 plumes, 67, 71, 72

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production, 224 Musquash delta, 123 radiolaria 184 rivers, 214, 218 Myer Hills, 198, 200, 204 rafting, sea-ice, 11 runoff, 2, 110 rhythmites, 183 streams, 46, 52, 54, 62, 96, 100 Narraguagus drainage system, 122 rift setting, active, 207 subglacial, 220 Neogloboquadrina pach.yd.erma, 167, Riggs delta, 52, 53, 54, 56, 58, 59, Mer de Glace Agassiz, 103 168, 174 68 Meringina Well, 209, 210 Ninnis Ice Tongue, 4, 5, 6, 19, 24 Riggs Glacier, 52, 62, 86 Mertz Glacier, 20 Noeggerathiapsis, 183 Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, 4 Mertz Ice Tongue, 4, 5, 6, 19, 24 North Flinders Basin, 207, 225 ripples, 99 Mertz-Ninnis Trough, 19, 20 basal diamictite unit, 210, 216 rocks microfauna, 178 heterogeneous mudstone facies unit, glacigenic, 213, 220 microfossils, 11 213,218 granitic, 40 microliminae, 54, 59 paleotopography, 209 metamorphic, 11 Middleton Island, Alaska, 161, 163, stratigraphy, 209 metasedimentary, 69 164, 165, 168, 172,177, 178, upper diamictite unit, 215, 219 metasomatized crystalline, 69 201, 217 upper heterogeneous mudstone facies sedimentary, 11, 29, 188, 200 Middleton Island shelf, 163 unit, 216, 218 Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 6, 14 Mill Fork B South Fork Canyon, 192 North Slope, 209 Ronne Ice Shelf, 4, 5 Mineral Fork Canyon, 192, 195 Northwest fault, 210 Roosevelt Island, 5, 14 Mineral Fork Formation, 191, 192, Novolazarevskiy Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 6 Ross Ice sheet drift, 39 193,195,196,203, 225 Ross Ice Shelf, 4, 5, 6, 14, 23, 28, 29, , late, 159 oil seeps, 163 37, 46, 132, 154 models Olsen Peak, 198 Ross Ice Shelf Project, 6 depositional, 97, 100 oozes, 6, 20 Ross Island, 5, 14, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, flow trajectories, 4 diatomaceous, 21, 35, 36, 46 40, 41, 42 ice-shelf facies, 14 production, 91 , 14, 24, 28, 202 Mineral Fork Formation, 195 Orca Group, 163 runoff, 62 two-stage sedimentational, 196 outwash, subaqueous, 127 Rutford , 4 Whiteout Conglomerate, 202 paleotopography, 209 Sabao drainage system, 122 banks, 88, 89, 90 paleovalleys, 219 Sabao fan, 123 DeGeer-type, 109, 119, 127, 128, , late, 181, 191 Saco Bay, 149 133 Palmer Land Ice Cap, 14 St. Elias Mountains, 163 end, 112 pavements, boulder, 174, 198, 199, salinity, 58, 108 stratified, 112, 128 201 saltation, eolian, 39, 45, 46 Mount Jacob area, 210, 213, 216 pebbles, 14, 35, 37, 39, 145, 194, salts, soluble, 28 Mt. Norwest, 216, 219 196, 213, 214 sands, 14, 39, 52, 54, 70, 97, 98, 110, Mt. Painter Complex, 209 bands, 198, 200 112, 119, 120, 128, 129, 147, Mt. Ulmer, 198 gravel, 113, 117, 123 152, 168 Mt. Washburn, 198 patches, 195 amalgamated, 98 Mt. Wyatt Earp, 198 Penobscot River Valley, 108, 122 coarse, 119, 138 mudrocks, 181, 182, 183 Peruvispira, 181 current-bedded, 99 litho facies, 183, 184 Pineo Ridge , 109, 119, 122, fluvial, 52 marine, 181 123 graded, 98 muds, 35, 52, 70, 72, 138, 160, 168, Piper Pass, 97 grains, 6 177, 183 , 127,159 interbedded, 99 bergstone, 88, 89, 91, 183, 188 late, 107 interlaminated, 99 blanket 165, 214 plumes, 58 laminated, 72, 99 deep-water, 214 meltwater, 165, 218 massive, 98 diatomaceous, 9, 14, 20, 21, 35 overflow, 62, 65, 72 outwash, 183 dropstone, 40 sediment, 203 volcanoes, 210 estuarine, 152 turbid, 97, 100, 102 sandstones, 160, 166, 167, 170, 171, glacial marine, 146, 149, 152, 154 Polar , 39 174, 178, 183, 184, 192, 193, laminated, 23 Pond Ridge Moraine, 127, 144 195, 196, 198, 199, 210, 213, sandy, 23, 138 Poul Creek Formation, 160,166, 111 214, 218 siliceous, 14, 20, 23 Presumpscot Formation, 109, 110, glauconite, 160, 166 quartzose, 40 silty, 20, 23, 54 127, 138, 146, 149 turbidites, 170 terrigenous, 14 Prince Albert shales, 184, 187 sandurs, 97 mudstones, 167, 170, 174, 201, 211, Prospect Mill area, 213, 216 Scotian Shelf, 140 213, 214, 216, 218, 219, 220 Proterozoic, late, 207 scour, 193 facies, 213, 216 Psygmophyllum, 186 fills, 98 , 178 Puget Sound lowlands, 140 laminated, 216, 225 sea ice, seasonal, 20 marine, 160 quartz, 213 sea level, eustatic, 78 Muir Glacier, 81 quartz arenites, 39, 184 seawater Muir Inlet, 52, 78 quartzite, 192 melting, 77 basins, 81 quartzite clasts, 193 refrozen, 4 glaciers, 80 Quaternary, 224, 225 undermelting, 2 Mulga Well 215 Queen Inlet, 58 seaweeds, 138

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Second Salpausselka Moraine, Finland, Shackleton Ice Shelf, 4 systems 119 shale, 160, 193, 195, 196 depositional, 88 sedimentation, 27,46,58, 103, 110, laminated, 198 drainage, 122 112, 178, 202, 203, 223 marine, 183 end-moraine, 120 deltaic, 51 shale siltstone, 192 grounding line, 75, 80, 86, 88 facies distribution, 27 shark remains, 184 ice tunnel, 109 glacial, 14, 182, 183, 185 shells outlet, 4 glacial marine, 95, 223 molluscan, 138 proglacial, 89 ice tongue, 20 oyster, 154 subglacial, 88 interglacial conditions, 27 shelves tunnel valley, 4, 22 marine, 2, 14, 51 arctic, 224 paleoclimatic significance, 223 continental, 108, 201 Tapley Mill Formation, 216, 219, polar climatic conditions, 27 polar, 138 220 rates, 41, 46, 51, 55, 56, 64, 71, sedimentation, 19 Tarr Inlet, 78 87, 160, 178, 182, 224 subarctic, 224 Taylor Valley region, 29 temperate glacial marine, 159 silt, 20, 24, 39, 54, 70, 72, 97, 99, tectonics, ice-margin, 119 sedimentology, 97,107, 110, 120, 102, 147, 183 termini 124 clayey, 46, 149 floating, 91 sediments laminae, 138 fluctuations, 77 accumulation, 80, 86, 88, 103 terrigenous, 16 glacial, 76 accumulation rates, 57, 61, 67, 71, siltstone, 193, 201, 210, 213 marine, 76 90 quartzise, 39 marine glacial, 77 bottom, 89 volcanic, 35, 37 movement, 87 slides, 69 budget, grounding line, 86 stability, 77 continental shelf, 88 sediment gravity, 112 terrestrial glacial, 77 diatomaceous, 6 submarine, 171 tidewater, 61, 69, 76, 77, 86 discharge, 122 sliding, 119 thermohaline currents, 36 dispersion, 86 slumping, 152, 174 Thwaites Ice Tongue, 4 entrapment, 103 slumps, 57, 69, 72, 216 tidal wave, 58 failures, 91 South Channel-Wilkinson Basin lobe, tides fluvial, 89 152 cycles, 51, 5 8 flux, 64 South Rim, 209 low, 58 glacial, 119, 121, 139, 182, 204 South Shetland Islands, 2 neap, 55 glacial fluvial, 110 sponge spicules, 184 spring, 56 glacial marine, 51, 87, 95 stagnation-zone retreat, 121 tidewater glacial margin, 132 hemipelagic, 45 Steele Glacier, 133 tidewater termini ice-proximal, 61 stones, striated, 210 fluctuations, 75 laminated, 51 Strand Moraine, 37 movement, 78, 88 layer, production , 51 stratigraphy, 97, 129, 209 retreat, 76 loads, 51 glacial marine units, 137 , 40, 110, 113, 144, 152, 154, origin, 72 seismic, 137 196, 201 plumes, 220 streams basal, 23, 24, 120 prodeltaic deposits, 51 basal, 86 lodgement, 201 rates, 71 discharge, 58, 102 subglacial, 88 recycling, 86 glacial outwash, 58 Tintic Quartzite, 195 release, 86 meltwater, 188, 203 topsets, 119 stratified, 117 proglacial, 62 Torror Rift, 28 subglacial, 96 subglacial, 65, 68, 71, 86 Tracy Corners, 112, 119 suspended, 164 subglacial sediment, 88 Tracy Corners fan complex, 120, 121 terrigenous, 23, 224 supraglacial, 97, 102 Trans Australia Zone, 220 transitional glacial marine, 16, 23, Sturtian, 207 Transantarctic Mountains, 20, 28, 29, 24 subglacial marine environment, 4 40, 198, 203 transport, 5, 29, 67, 87, 103, 110 sublaminae, 59 transport, 204 transport mechanisms, 4 sublimation, 28 Trinity Peninsula, 9, 11 traps, 55, 59, 63, 71 submergence troughs, 195, 203, 209 volume, 122 deglacial, 128 tunnels, subglacial, 62, 89, 110, 121 yields, 80 marine, 108 turbidites, 33, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 166, seismic facies units, 142, 154 subsidence, 160, 196, 198 170, 171, 177, 178, 224 Sentinel Range, northern, 198, 200, successions, 87, 207 Bouma, 14, 46 202, 204 glacial marine, 207 distal, 35, 44, 46 sequences glacigenic, 209, 219 facies, 33, 168, 172 glacial marine, 225 vertical, 40 turbidity seismic depositional, 152 Sulzberger Ice Shelf, 4 current, 40, 42, 89, 99, 152 settings survey flows, 33, 37, 119 glacial marine, 138 neap tide, 55 modern glacial marine, 223 sediment trap, 55, 56 Umbertatana Group, 207 polar arctic, 138 spring tide, 56 undermelting, 2 settling, 62 suspension, 62 Upper Muir Inlet, 69 Seymour Island, 9, 11 suspension settling, 59, 72, 97, 102 Utah, 191

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valleys , 4, 191, 198, 202 Wordie Ice Shelf, 14 submarine, 22 West Ice Shelf, 4 Wrangell Mountains, 178 tunnel, 24, 224 whaleback, 192 Victoria Land, 28, 39 White Glacier, 102 Yakataga basin, 163 Victoria Land Basin, 28 White River region, 178 Yakataga District, 160 Whiteout Conglomerate, 191, 198, Yakataga Formation, 159, 201, 217, Wachusett delta, 52,53,54,57, 58, 203, 225 218, 219, 220, 225 59 depositional model, 202 climate, 164 Wachusett Inlet, 57 Myer Hills, 198, 200 Yakataga Reef, 160, 163, 165, 177 Wackes, 184 Sentinel Range, 200, 202 Yakutat Bay, 165 Warmbad Basin, 183 Whiteout Nunatak, 198 Yakutat terrane, 163 Warrawina, 210, 213, 216 Wilkes Land, 19, 24 Yankaninna anticline, 208, 218 water, subglacial, 88 Wilkinson Basin, 152 Yudnamutana Subgroup, 207, 208 weathering, 37 Wilson Sea Valley, 29, 35, 36 Yudnamutana trough, 208, 209, 211, , 14 winds, 28 213, 214, 216 , 14, 23 katabatic, 29, 39

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Contents Foreword v 1. Sedimentary facies associated with Antarctica's floating ice masses 1 John B. Anderson, Douglas S. Kennedy, Michael J. Smith, and Eugene W. Domack 2. Facies distribution resulting from sedimentation under polar interglacial climatic conditions within a high-latitude marginal basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica 27 Louis R. Bartek and John B. Anderson 3. Laminated sediments in prodeltaic deposits, Glacier Bay, Alaska 51 Andrew C. Phillips, Norman D. Smith, and Ross D. Powell 4. Ice-proximal sediment accumulation rates in a temperate glacial fjord, southeastern Alaska 61 Ellen A. Cowan and Ross D. Powell 5. Grounding-line systems as second-order controls on fluctuations of tidewater termini of temperate glaciers 75 Ross D. Powell 6. Glacial-marine sedimentation from tidewater glaciers in the Canadian High Arctic 95 Thomas G. Stewart 7. Sedimentology of late Pleistocene (Laurentide) deglacial-phase deposits, eastern Maine; An example of a temperate marine grounded ice-sheet margin 107 Gail M. Ashley, Jon C. Boothroyd, and Harold W. Borns, Jr. 8. Structural control of deposition by Pleistocene tidewater glaciers, Gulf of Maine 127 Kristine J. Crossen 9. Seismic stratigraphy of glacial marine units, Maine inner shelf 137 Daniel F. Belknap and R. Craig Shipp 10. The Yakataga Formation; A late Miocene to Pleistocene record of temperate glacial marine sedimentation in the Gulf of Alaska 159 C. H. Eyles, N. Eyles, and M. B. Lagoe 11. The paleoclimatic setting of the late Paleozoic marine ice sheet in the Karoo Basin of southern Africa 181 Johan N. J. Visser 12. Comparisons in depositional style of "polar" and "temperate" glacial ice; Late Paleozoic Whiteout Conglomerate (West Antarctica) and late Proterozoic Mineral Fork Formation (Utah) 191 Charles L. Matsch and Richard W. Ojakangas 13. Late Proterozoic (Sturtian) succession of the North Flinders Basin, South Australia; An example of temperate glaciation in an active rift setting 207 G. M. Young and V. A. Gostin 14. Glacial marine sedimentation; Paleoclimatic significance; A discussion 223 John B. Anderson and Gail M. Ashley Index 227

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