The glaciodynamic event and glaciodynamic sequence

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    Abstract

    The cross section of the Feggeklit coast profile in the western Limfjord region, northern Denmark, is selected to demonstrate the principles for glaciotectonic and glaciodynamic classification. The Feggeklit profile displays glaciotectonically folded, thrust-faulted and sheared Paleogene diatomite with thin volcanic ash layers overlain by a glacigene sequence. Besides the pre-Quaternary sediments, the depositional events include three tills, meltwater sand and gravel, and a glaciolacustrine unit. The deformation of the sediments was caused by two glacial tectonic mechanisms: proglacial gravity-spreading deformation, and subglacial cataclastic shearing. -from Author

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGlaciotectonics and Mapping Glacial Deposits: Proceedings of the INQUA Commission on Formation and Properties of Glacial Deposits
    EditorsJames S. Aber
    PublisherCanadian Plains Research Center
    Pages67-85
    Number of pages19
    ISBN (Print)978-088977075-1
    Publication statusPublished - 1993

    Publication series

    SeriesCanadian Plains Proceedings
    Volume25

    Programme Area

    • Programme Area 5: Nature and Climate

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