Ice Contact Homework

1. (25 pts) Describe the outcrops you wil use to develop the till facies model - use graphics.

2. (20 pts) Provide an interpretation of diamicton units described in 1.

 

Use whatever resources you like. View each of these examples and place the corresponding number into its proper location on the appropriate moraine model. (In PDF format) 8 pts. Each. If you feel a specific image does not fit any of the models, explain why.

1. Contact Between Clean Ice and Stratified Basal Ice, Skaftafellsjökull, Iceland, 1997

2. Stratified Basal Ice, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

3. Small Debris Flow, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

4. Blocky Debris, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

5. Debris Ridge Formation, Skeidararjökull, Iceland, 1997

6. Recent Retreat, Fjallsjökull, Iceland 1997

7. Flutes and Annual Moraines, Fjallsjökull, Iceland 1997

8. Bathtub Moraine Ring, Svinafellsjökull, Iceland, 1997

9. Debris Covered Ice Core, Svinafellsjökull, Iceland, 1997

10. Active Hummocky Topography 1, Kviarjökull, Iceland, 1997

11. Active Hummocky Topography 2, Kviarjökull, Iceland, 1997

12. Discharge Fountain, Kviarjökull, Iceland, 1997

13. Basal Ice, Debris Flows, and Channel, Kviarjökull, Iceland, 1997

14. Ice-Contact Zone 1, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

15. Ice-Contact Zone 2, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

16. Small Flutes, Flaajökull, Iceland, 1997

17. Backwasting Movement, Svinafellsjökull, Iceland, 1997

18. Relic Hummocky Topography, Kviarjökull, Iceland, 1997



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