Glacial indicator dispersal processes: a conceptual model
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Glacial indicator dispersal processes: a conceptual model
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2004
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Taylor & Francis
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Interpretation of indicator dispersal trains preserved in till sheets is widely used to investigate past glacial processes and to explore for buried bedrock mineralization. We present a conceptual model of erosion and entrainment and transport of indicator material in a glacial system. Indicator concentration in an individual size fraction of till is controlled by dilution and comminution. Dilution is the result of incorporation of additional material to the glacier’s debris load down-ice of the indicator source, and is described in terms of erosivity and erosion length scale. Erosivity describes the amount of bed material eroded along a flowline, and is a function of both bed properties and the erosive power of the glacier. Erosion length scale describes the persistence of an indicator dispersal signal during transport, and controls both the maximum total indicator concentration and the eventual length of apparent dispersal. We adapt a modified batch grinding particle comminution model to describe breakdown of indicator material during transport and modification of the indicator particle size distribution. Indicator dispersal concentrations are the product of dilution and comminution processes.
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10.1080/03009480410001262
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Larson, P. C. & Mooers, H. D. 2004 (August): Glacial indicator dispersal processes: a conceptual model. Boreas, Vol. 33, pp. 238–249. Oslo.
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Larson, Phillip C; Mooers, Howard D. (2004). Glacial indicator dispersal processes: a conceptual model. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.1080/03009480410001262.
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