The sensitivity of subglacial bedform size and distribution to substrate lithological control

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 232, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 130-144

  Greenwood, Sarah L ^a   Clark, Chris D ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drumlins; Ireland; Ribbed moraine; Subglacial bedform; Subglacial geology

Indexed keywords

BED FORMS; DRUMLINS; IRELAND; RIBBED MORAINE; SUBGLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIERS; ICE; ICE CONTROL; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSTRATES;

LITHOLOGY;

BEDFORM; BEDROCK; DRUMLIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; LITHOLOGY; MORAINE; MORPHOMETRY; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

IRELAND;

EID: 78249257576     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Anandakrishnan S., Blankenship D.D., Alley R.B., Stoffa P.L. Influence of subglacial geology on the position of a West Antarctic ice stream from seismic observations. Nature 1998, 394:62-65.
2. Aronow S. Drumlins and related streamline features in the Warwick-Tokio area, North Dakota. American Journal of Science 1959, 257:191-203.
3. Aylsworth J.M., Shilts W.W. Bedforms of the Keewatin Ice Sheet, Canada. Sedimentary Geology 1989, 62:407-428.
4. Barr, I.D., 2009. Constraining the extent, style and phases of glaciation to derive Late Quaternary equilibrium-line altitude estimates in Far NE Russia. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
5. Bell R.E., Blankenship D.D., Finn C.A., Morse D.L., Scambos T.A., Brozena J.M., Hodge S.M. Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations. Nature 1998, 394:58-62.
6. Benn D.I., Evans D.J.A. Subglacial megafloods: outrageous hypothesis or just outrageous?. Glacier science and environmental change 2006, 42-46. Blackwell, Oxford. P.G. Knight (Ed.).
7. Boulton G.S. A theory of drumlin formation by subglacial sediment deformation. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 25-80. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
8. Boulton G.S., Dobbie K.E. Consolidation of sediments by glaciers: relations between sediment geotechnics, soft-bed glacier dynamics and subglacial groundwater flow. Journal of Glaciology 1993, 39:26-44.
9. Boulton G.S., Hindmarsh R.C.A. Sediment deformation beneath glaciers: rheology and sedimentological consequences. Journal of Geophysical Research 1987, 92(B9):9059-9082.
10. Boulton G.S., Dongelmans P., Punkari M., Broadgate M. Palaeoglaciology of an ice sheet through a glacial cycle: the European ice sheet through the Weichselian. Quaternary Science Reviews 2001, 20:591-625.
11. Charlesworth J.K. The Quaternary Era: with special reference to its glaciation 1957, Arnold, London.
12. Chorley R.J. The shape of drumlins. Journal of Glaciology 1959, 3:339-344.
13. Clark C.D. Large-scale ice-moulding: a discussion of genesis and glaciological significance. Sedimentary Geology 1994, 91:253-268.
14. Clark P.U. Unstable behaviour of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over deforming sediment and its implications for climate change. Quaternary Research 1994, 41:19-25.
15. Clark C.D., Stokes C.R. Extent and basal characteristics of the M'Clintock Channel Ice Stream. Quaternary International 2001, 86(1):81-101.
16. Clark P.U., Walder J.S. Subglacial drainage, eskers, and deforming beds beneath the Laurentide and Eurasian ice sheets. Geological Society of America Bulletin 1994, 106:304-314.
17. Clark C.D., Hughes A.L.C., Greenwood S.L., Spagnolo M., Ng F.S.L. Size and shape characteristics of drumlins, derived from a large sample, and associated scaling laws. Quaternary Science Reviews 2009, 28:677-692.
18. Close M.H. Notes on the general glaciation of Ireland. Journal of Royal Geological Society of Ireland 1867, 1:207-242.
19. Crozier M.J. On the origin of the Peterborough drumlin field: testing the Dilatancy theory. Canadian Geographer 1975, 14:181-195.
20. Dyke A.S., Prest V.K. Late Wisconsinan and Holocene history of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 1987, 41:237-263.
21. Evans J., Dowdeswell J.A., Ó Cofaigh C. Late Quaternary submarine bedforms and ice-sheet flow in Gerlache Strait and on the adjacent continental shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Quaternary Science 2004, 19(4):397-407.
22. Evans D.J.A., Phillips E.R., Hiemstra J.F., Auton C.A. Subglacial till: Formation, sedimentary characteristics and classification. Earth Science Reviews 2006, 78:115-176.
23. Fowler A.C. An instability mechanism for drumlin formation. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 2000, 176:307-319. A.J. Maltman, B. Hubbard, M.J. Hambrey (Eds.).
24. Freeze R.A., Cherry J.A. Groundwater 1979, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
25. Glückert G. Two large drumlin fields in central Finland. Fennia 1973, 120:1-37.
26. Glückert G. The drumlins of central Finland. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 291-294. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
27. Gravenor C.P. The Yarmouth drumlin field, Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Glaciology 1974, 13:45-54.
28. Greenwood, S.L., 2008. A palaeo-glaciological reconstruction of the last Irish Ice Sheet. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sheffield, pp. 360.
29. Greenwood S.L., Clark C.D. Subglacial bedforms of the Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Maps 2008, 2008:332-357.
30. Greenwood S.L., Clark C.D. Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 1: changing flow geometries and ice flow dynamics deciphered from the glacial landform record. Quaternary Science Reviews 2009, 28:3085-3100.
31. Greenwood S.L., Clark C.D. Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 2: a geomorphologically-driven model of ice sheet growth, retreat and dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews 2009, 28:3101-3123.
32. Haavisto-Hyvärinen M. Mapping of drumlins of the Mikkeli district, southeastern Finland. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 295-308. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
33. Harry D.G., Trenhaile A.S. The morphology of the Arran drumlin field, southern Ontario, Canada. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 161-173. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
34. Hättestrand C. Ribbed moraines in Sweden - distribution pattern and palaeoglaciological implications. Sedimentary Geology 1997, 111:41-56.
35. Heidenreich C. Some observations on the shape of drumlins. Canadian Geographer 1964, 8(2):101-107.
36. Hess D.P., Briner J.P. Geospatial analysis of controls on subglacial bedform morphometry in the New York Drumlin Field - implications for Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2009, 34:1126-1135.
37. Hill A.R. The distribution of drumlins in County Down, Ireland. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1973, 63(2):226-240.
38. Hindmarsh R.C.A. The stability of a viscous till sheet coupled with ice flow, considered at wavelengths less than ice thickness. Journal of Glaciology 1998, 44:288-292.
39. Hindmarsh R.C.A. Drumlinization and drumlin-forming instabilities: viscous till mechanisms. Journal of Glaciology 1998, 44:293-314.
40. Hindmarsh R.C.A. Coupled ice-till dynamics and the seeding of drumlins and bedrock forms. Annals of Glaciology 1999, 28:221-230.
41. Hooke R.L. Principles of Glacier Mechanics 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2nd edition.
42. Jansson K.N., Stroeven A.P., Kleman J. Configuration and timing of Ungava Bay ice streams, Labrador-Ungava, Canada. Boreas 2003, 32:256-262.
43. Kerr M., Eyles N. Origin of drumlins on the floor of Lake Ontario and in upper New York State. Sedimentary Geology 2007, 193:7-20.
44. King E.C., Woodward J., Smith A.M. Seismic and radar observations of subglacial bed forms beneath the onset zone of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology 2007, 53(183):665-672.
45. Kleman J., Hättestrand C. Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature 1999, 402:63-65.
46. Knight J. Morphological and morphometric analyses of drumlin bedforms in the Omagh Basin, north central Ireland. Geografiska Annaler 1997, 79A:255-266.
47. Knight J., McCabe A.M. Drumlin evolution and ice sheet oscillations along the NE Atlantic margin, Donegal Bay, western Ireland. Sedimentary Geology 1997, 111:57-72.
48. Larter R.D., Graham A.G.C., Gohl K., Kuhn G., Hillenbrand C.-D., Smith J.A., Deen T.J., Livermore R.A., Schenke H.-W. Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. Geology 2009, 37(5):411-414.
49. Lowe A.L., Anderson J.B. Reconstruction of the West Antarctic ice sheet in Pine Island Bay during the Last Glacial Maximum and its subsequent retreat history. Quaternary Science Reviews 2002, 21:1879-1897.
50. Lundqvist J. Studies of drumlin tracts in central Sweden. Acta Geographica Lodziensia 1970, 24:317-326.
51. Marshall S.J., Clarke G.K.C., Dyke A.S., Fisher D.A. Geologic and topographic controls on fast flow in the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research 1996, 101(B8):17827-17839.
52. Meehan R.T. Parent material/subsoil mapping. EPA soil and subsoil mapping project: summary methodology description for subsoils, land cover, habitat and soil mapping/modelling, version 1.2. Teagasc, Dublin 2006, R. Fealy, M. Loftus, R. Meehan (Eds.).
53. Menzies J. A review of the literature on the formation and location of drumlins. Earth Science Reviews 1979, 14:315-359.
54. Menzies J. Towards a general hypothesis on the formation of drumlins. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 9-24. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
55. Menzies J. Subglacial hydraulic conditions and their possible impact upon subglacial bed formation. Sedimentary Geology 1989, 62:125-150.
56. Mills H.H. Morphometry of drumlins in the northeastern and north-central USA. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 131-148. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
57. Ó Cofaigh C., Pudsey C.J., Dowdeswell J.A., Morris P. Evolution of subglacial bedforms along a paleo-ice stream, Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf. Geophysical Research Letters 2002, 29(8). 41 1-4.
58. Ottesen D., Stokes C.R., Rise L., Olsen L. Ice-sheet dynamics and ice streaming along the coastal parts of northern Norway. Quaternary Science Reviews 2008, 27:922-940.
59. Paterson W.S.B. The Physics of Glaciers 1994, Pergamon, Oxford.
60. Piotrowski J.A. Genesis of the Woodstock drumlin field, southern Ontario, Canada. Boreas 1987, 16:249-265.
61. Piotrowski J.A. Subglacial hydrology in north-western Germany during the last glaciation: groundwater flow, tunnel valleys and hydrological cycles. Quaternary Science Reviews 1997, 16:169-185.
62. Piotrowski J.A., Smalley I.J. The Woodstock drumlin field, southern Ontario, Canada. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 309-322. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
63. Prest, V.K., Grant, D.R., Rampton, V.N., 1968. Glacial Map of Canada, Geological Survey of Canada.
64. Putnam D.F., Chapman L.J. The drumlins of southern Ontario. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1943, 37:75-88.
65. Rattas M., Kalm V. Lithostratigraphy and distribution of tills in the Saadjärve drumlin field, east-central Estonia. Geology 2001, 50:24-42. 1.
66. Rattas M., Piotrowski J.A. Influence of bedrock permeability and till grain size on the formation of the Saadjärve drumlin field, Estonia, under an east-Baltic Weichselian ice stream. Boreas 2003, 32:167-177.
67. Reed B., Galvin C.J., Miller J.P. Some aspects of drumlin geometry. American Journal of Science 1962, 260:200-210.
68. Riley J.M. Drumlins of the southern Vale of Eden, Cumbria, England. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 323-334. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
69. Rose J. Drumlins as part of a glacier bedform continuum. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 103-116. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
70. Schoof C.G., Clarke G.K.C. A model for spiral flows in basal ice and the formation of subglacial flutes based on a Reiner-Rivlin rheology for glacial ice. Journal of Geophysical Research 2008, 113:B05204.
71. Shaw J. The meltwater hypothesis for subglacial bedforms. Quaternary International 2002, 90(1):5-22.
72. Shaw J., Munro-Stasiuk M.J. Reply to Benn and Evans: subglacial megafloods: outrageous hypothesis or just outrageous?. Glacier Science and Environmental Change 2006, 46-50. Blackwell, Oxford. P.G. Knight (Ed.).
73. Shaw J., Kvill D., Rains B. Drumlins and catastrophic subglacial floods. Sedimentary Geology 1989, 62:177-202.
74. Smalley I.J., Piotrowski J.A. Critical strength/stress ratios at the ice-bed interface in the drumlin forming process: from 'dilantancy' to 'cross-over'. Drumlin Symposium 1987, 81-86. Balkema, Rotterdam. J. Menzies, J. Rose (Eds.).
75. Smalley I.J., Unwin D.J. The formation and shape of drumlins and their distribution and orientation in drumlin fields. Journal of Glaciology 1968, 7:377-390.
76. Smith A.M., Murray T., Nicholls K.W., Makinson K., Adstrokealgeirsdóttir G., Behar A.E., Vaughan D.G. Rapid erosion, drumlin formation, and changing hydrology beneath an Antarctic ice stream. Geology 2007, 35(2):127-130.
77. Stokes C.R., Clark C.D. Geomorphological criteria for identifying Pleistocene ice streams. Annals of Glaciology 1999, 28:67-75.
78. Stokes C.R., Clark C.D. Laurentide ice streaming on the Canadian Shield: a conflict with the soft-bedded ice stream paradigm?. Geology 2003, 31(4):347-350.
79. Synge F.M. The Irish Quaternary: Current views 1969. Irish Geographical Studies, in honour of E. Estyn Evans 1970, 34-48. The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast. N. Stephens, R.E. Glasscock (Eds.).
80. Trenhaile A.S. The morphology of a drumlin field. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1975, 65(2):297-312.
81. Wellner J.S., Lowe A.L., Shipp S.S., Anderson J.B. Distribution of glacial geomorphic features on the Antarctic continental shelf and correlation with substrate: implications for ice behavior. Journal of Glaciology 2001, 47:397-411.
82. Wellner J.S., Heroy D.C., Anderson J.B. The death mask of the antarctic ice sheet: comparison of glacial geomorphic features across the continental shelf. Geomorphology 2006, 75(1-2):157-171.