Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction to Papers -- Part 1 Glacier dynamics and sedimentation -- Hydrological connections between Antarctic subglacial lakes, the flow of water beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and implications for sedimentary processes -- Sedimentology, structural characteristics and morphology of a Neoglacial high-Arctic moraine-mound complex: Midre Lovenbreen, Svalbard -- A new laboratory apparatus for investigating clast ploughing -- Part 2 Modelling glaciers and ice sheets -- A coupled ice-sheet/ice-shelf/sediment model applied to a marine-margin flowline: forced and unforced variations -- A brief review on modelling sediment erosion, transport and deposition by former large ice sheets -- Part 3 Quaternary glacial systems -- Glaciomarine sediment drifts from Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula -- Sedimentary signatures of the Waterloo Moraine, Ontario, Canada -- Estimating episodic permafrost development in northern Germany during the Pleistocene -- Lake-level control on ice-margin subaqueous fans, glacial Lake Rinteln, Northwest Germany -- Seasonal controls on deposition of Late Devensian Glaciolacustrine Sediments, Central Ireland -- Anatomy and facies association of a drumlin in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, from seismic and electrical resistivity surveys -- The Newbigging esker system, Lanarkshire, Southern Scotland: a model for composite tunnel, subaqueous fan and supraglacial esker sedimentation -- The age and origin of the Blakeney esker of north Norfolk: implications for the glaciology of the southern North Sea Basin -- Sediments and landforms in an upland glaciated-valley landsystem: upper Ennerdale, English Lake District -- Part 4 Pre-Quaternary glacial systems -- Cenozoic climate and sea level history from glacimarine strata off the Victoria Land coast, Cape Roberts Project, Antarctica.

Glacial stress field orientation reconstructed through micromorphology and m X-ray computed tomography of till -- The Late Ordovician glacial sedimentary system of the North Gondwana platform -- The Ordovician glaciation in Eritrea and Ethiopia, NE Africa -- Neoproterozoic glaciated basins: a critical review of the Snowball Earth hypothesis by comparison with Phanerozoic glaciations -- Index.

"The wide range of time periods, methods and concepts discussed should be of interest across many subject areas … .A wide mix of research published in this volume." (Holocene, December 2008).

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