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Session Proposal: Landscape Evolution Beneath and Beyond the Ice (AGU25)

EP025
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
 
Unraveling Tidewater Glacier Cycles in Greenland: From Idealized Models to Real-World Insights (Invited) (1852102)
Mikayla Pascual1, Benjamin Andrew Keisling2, Ginny Catania3, Douglas Brinkerhoff4, John Erich Christian5, Sean P S Gulick6, Abigail Rodionov3, Denis Felikson3 and TERMINUS Expedition Team, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (4)University of Montana, Department of Computer Science, Missoula, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, (6)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
 
Arctic Deltas Shaped by GIA-Driven Sea-Level Change and Sediment Supply (1866320)
Viet M Bui1, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba1, Emma Mackie1, Tamara Pico2 and Jerry X Mitrovica3, (1)University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (3)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States
 
Ongoing landscape response to continental-wide drainage reorganization in the ice-sheet marginal western Canadian Arctic (Invited) (1879379)
Alexander Getraer1, Bailey Nordin2, India Jones2, Maia Stewart2, Shanti B. Penprase2, Justin Vincent Strauss2 and Marisa C Palucis2, (1)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States
 
Characterization of glacial lineation from outcrop and subsurface: Integration of outcrop data, remote-sensing techniques, and seismic imaging (1889280)
Hassan HUSSAIN Albayyat1, Saeed Tofaif1, Mohammed Sadah1, Hassan Ramadhan1, Khalid Dhamen1 and Saeed Tofaif, (1)Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
 
Glacial Cirque Morphology and Paleo-Equilibrium Line Altitudes in the Bighorn Mountains and Southern Absaroka Range, Wyoming (1902114)
Katherine Anderson, Gettysburg College, Department of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, United States and Sarah M Principato, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, United States
 
On De Geer and washboard moraines in New York State (1903486)
Sean Grasing and Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States
 
Climatic and Geodynamic Drivers of River-Terrace Formation Since 1 Ma in the Patagonian Foreland, Argentina (1907334)
Taylor F Schildgen1, Victoria Milanez Fernandes1, Andreas Ruby1, Jonathan Tobal2, Nathan Voßebürger3, Andrew D Wickert4, Lennart Grimm5 and Fergus McNab1, (1)GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Instituto de Estudios Andinos “Don Pablo Groeber” (IDEAN), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (3)Free University Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, (5)University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
The Timing of the First Missoula Flood—New Dating Underway (1924666)
Jessie McClellan1, Isaac J Larsen1 and Jim E O'Connor2, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)USGS, Portland, United States
 
Shapes of Things: Specific Geomorphometry of Cryoplanation Terraces in Eastern Beringia (1932161)
Frederick E Nelson1, Clayton Queen2, Kelsey E Nyland3, Raven Jezell Mitchell4 and Vasily Tolmanov2, (1)Northern Michigan University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Marquette, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (3)The George Washington University, Department of Geography and Environment, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Sediment Deformation at the Large Scale: Effects of Non-monotonic Shear Localization on the Formation of Grounding Zone Wedges (1955107)
Ian Madden and Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Sampling Signs of Slope in the Susquehanna: Detecting glacial isostatic adjustment as an ice-age climate signal modulating river sediment transport (1959477)
Sam Kodama, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Tamara Pico, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Madison Douglas, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Allison M Pfeiffer, Western Washington University, Geology Department, Bellingham, United States, Scott Robert David, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, United States, Sean F Gallen, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Noah J Finnegan, University of California - Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Investigating the Depositional Environment of Laminated Glacial Sediments in Northwestern Washington, U.S.A. (1969992)
Marv Locke, Douglas H Clark, Camilo Ponton and Brady Foreman, Western Washington University, Geology Department, Bellingham, United States
 
Northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet fluctuations since the late Pliocene recorded by cosmogenic nuclides in pro- and subglacial sediment and bedrock (1973369)
Allie Balter-Kennedy1, Joerg M Schaefer2, Jason P Briner3, Nicolas E. Young2, Caleb Walcott–George4, Nathan Brown5, Joanna Charton2, Benjamin Andrew Keisling6, Tanner Kuhl7, Elliot Moravec7, Robert Deconto8, Danielle Mangini9, Catherine Britt10, Sridhar Anandakrishnan11, Nathan Stevens12, Elizabeth K Thomas3, John Michael N Aguilar13 and Zoe Courville14, (1)Tufts University, Earth and Climate Sciences, Medford, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States, (4)University of Kentucky, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Arlington, DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Arlington, United States, (6)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (7)US Ice Drilling Program, Madison, United States, (8)University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Earth and Sustainability, Amherst, United States, (9)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (10)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (11)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (13)University at Buffalo, Department of Chemistry, Buffalo, NY, United States, (14)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Horizontal Bedrock Weaknesses as a Control On Subglacial Quarrying (1999795)
Christopher Roland Theiss1, Brock Bass2, Annalise Gay2 and Timothy Elnitiarta2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States