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Glacial deposits are the most extensive of Quaternary deposits in Great Britain and Ireland. They are classically the characteristic sediments of the Quaternary, and were the original source of ideas of climatic change and of glacial episodes.

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Author:   Juergen Ehlers ,  Philip L. Gibbard ,  Jim Rose
Publisher:   A A Balkema Publishers
Imprint:   A A Balkema Publishers
Weight:   1.610kg
ISBN:  

9789061918752

ISBN 10:   9061918758
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   31 July 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword GLACIAL EVENTS Time and space in the glacial sediment systems of the British Isles; Pre-Anglian glacial deposits and glaciations in Britain; Anglian glacial deposits in Britain and the adjoining offshore regions; Wolstonian glacial deposits and glaciation in Britain; Pre-Midlandian glacial deposits in Ireland; Possible early Devensian glacial deposits in the British Isles; Late Devensian glacial deposits and glaciation in Scotland and the adjacent offshore region; Late Devensian glacial deposits and glaciations in eastern England and the adjoining offshore region; Late Midlandian glacial deposits and glaciation in Ireland and the adjacent offshore regions; Fenitian (Midlandian) glacial deposits and glaciation in Ireland and the adjacent offshore regions; The Loch Lomond Stadial glaciation in Britain and Ireland; CRITICAL REGIONS Glacial deposits of the Hebridean region; The glaciation of the Shetland and Orkney Islands; The glacial deposits of Buchan, northeast Scotland; The glaciation and glacial deposits of the western Grampians; The glacial history and glacial deposits of the North and West Cumbrian lowlands; Glacial deposits of Northumbria; Glacial deposits of the English Lake District; The Quaternary history and glacial deposits of East Yorkshire; Quaternary history and glacial deposits of the Peak District; Glacial deposits of the lowlands between the Mersey and Severn rivers; Glacial deposits of Lincolnshire and adjoining areas; The glacial deposits of northwestern Norfolk; The glacial drifts of northeastern Norfolk; The glacial sequence of the southern North Sea; The tills of southern East Anglia; The glacial deposits of South Wales; Glacial deposits of the Isles of Scilly; Glaciation of the central and southwestern Celtic Sea; Glaciomarine deposits of the Irish Sea Basin: The role of Glacio-Isostatic disequilibrium; Glacial deposits and Quaternary stratigraphy of the Isle of Man; Glacial deposits of southwest Ireland; Glacial deposits and landforms of central and western Ireland; The glacial stratigraphy and deposits of Eastern Ireland CRITICAL TOPICS Mapping glacial deposits in Britain and Ireland; Geotechnical properties of glacial deposits in lowland Britain; Styles of Anglian ice-marginal channel sedimentation: As revealed by a conductivity meter and extendable augers; Till lithology in Ireland[ The distribution and stratigraphy of drumlins in Ireland; Sedimentology of glaciofluvial deposits; Glaciofluvial landforms; Deformation structures in British Pleistocene sediments; Geochemical properties of glacial deposits in the British Isles; Glacial deposits of Britain and Europe: General overview.

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Juergen Ehlers, Geologisches Landesant, Hamburg. . Philip L. Gibbard, University of Cambridge. Jim Rose, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham.

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