Shore ice forms along beaches in cold climates and during its formation is capable of entraining sediment from the nearshore. Upon breakup, entrained sediment within the ice can be rafted to deeper waters, melt out and ...

Abrasion acts to smooth glacial terrains and leaves behind linear scratch-like features (striations) on bedrock landscapes. Striations are often used as measures of glacier flow directions, but their morphology can provide ...

Glacial landforms provide a valuable record from which to study the history and dynamics of past ice sheets. Eskers record paleo subglacial hydrologic and sediment transport conditions because they are composed of sediment ...

Glacial kettles are surficial depressions that form in formerly glaciated terrain when buried stagnant ice melts within proglacial sediments, often deposited by meltwater streams. Kettles, like other glacial landforms, ...

Fast glacier motion is facilitated by slip at the ice-bed interface. For slip over rigid beds, areas of ice-bed separation (cavities) can exert significant control on slip dynamics. Analytic models of these systems assume ...