Subglacial

Why? 

 Objective: Understand the different types of tills
 Skills: Diamicton Description

Resources

 Tasks

 Reading:

Benn and Evans Sections 5.5-5.7, 10.1-10.3, and 11.2 .

Other -

Savage and Lowell, 1992, Dynamics of the Marginal Late Wisconsin Miami Sublobe, Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio J. of Science, 92, p. 107-118.

Read this with the idea of being able to tell the three different types of facies apart in the field.

Bennett and Glasser Section 8.1 especially Table 8.1.


(Optional, and a good reference) Boulton and Paul, 1976, The influence of genetic processes on some geotechnical properties of glacial tills, Quat, Journal of Engineering Geology, v. 9, p. 159-194.

 Questions:

Subglacial Depositon 2001 --- In PDF format

Subglacial Deposition 1999

Subglacial Depostion 1998

Discussion of Homework 1998

For 2000 see Note

 

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 Lecture: Old lecture #5 Subglacial Deposition  Data Collection:

From Peter Soltys some Images from 2001 - Thanks Peter.

Peters images in PDF format

Images on-line 1999

For Barbra - extra images in 1999

Images taken on 16 Oct

Report from Patrick and John

 Study Images: Subglacial Deposition- Images

 Data Reduction:

Sumary Table of Till Properties (PDF)

Detailed Table of Till Properties (PDF)

Map of Paddison Road (PDF)

 Data Reporting: Note


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