ICE-MARGIN INDICATORS

John A. Matthews

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John A. Matthews
In:Encyclopedia of Environmental Change
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n1997
Subject:Environmental Sciences (general), Environmental Technology, Policy & Management

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Geomorphological evidence that indicates the former position of the margin of a glacier or ice sheet including, for example, many types of moraines, kame terraces, ice-contact slopes and associated ice-contact fans/ramps, sandur and trimlines. Ice-margin indicators are used in the reconstruction of the maximum extent of former glaciers and also subsequent recessional stages.

[See alsolast glacial maximum (lgm)]

John A.MatthewsSwansea University

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Pisarska-JamrozyM (2006) Transitional deposits between the end moraine and outwash plain in the Pomeranian glaciomarginal zone of NW Poland: A missing component of ice-contact sedimentary models. Boreas35: 126–141.

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