EP025
Landscape Evolution Beneath and Beyond the Ice
Landscape Evolution Beneath and Beyond the Ice
Session ID#: 249362
Session Description:
In the recent geological past, glaciers substantially covered Earth's surface. Through erosion and deposition of underlying landscapes, glacial ice transformed Earth's surface in subglacial and ice-marginal systems. Evidence of ice influence on peri-, para-, and post-glacial landscapes informs scientific understanding of glacially-driven landscape evolution across a range of scales. This session aims to highlight the ways in which near and far-field glaciation of the recent past has transformed our landscapes and understanding of evolution of Earth’s surface through sediment erosion, transport, and deposition.The works presented in this session will encompass a range of methodologies for exploring cryosphere-related landscape evolution including field observations, modeling efforts, laboratory experiments, and novel techniques emerging across the geosciences. We invite presentations on how landscapes beneath and/or near glaciers, in the past and/or present, evolve alongside changing local and global climate and environment.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- C - Cryosphere
Index Terms:
0710 Periglacial processes [CRYOSPHERE]
0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0744 Rivers [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener: Shanti Bhattacharya Penprase, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States
Conveners: Marion McKenzie, Colorado School of Mines, Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Dougal Hansen, Washington University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States and Jingtao Lai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geology, Urbana, IL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Natasha Morgan-Witts, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States
See more of: Earth and Planetary Surface Processes