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Scott Polar Research Institute & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK
(e-mail: jd16{at}cam.ac.uk)
(e-mail: co232{at}cam.ac.uk)
The papers in this volume are the outcome of a Geological Society (London) meeting concerning glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins, held at the University of Bristol, UK, in 2001. Since the publication of the Geological Society Special Publication Glacimarine Environments: Processes and Sediments (Dowdeswell & Scourse 1990), the intervening 11 years have seen a significant increase in research into the processes and patterns of glacimarine sedimentation, and the relationship between ice dynamics and the sediments and landforms preserved in the glacimarine environment. In this introduction, we outline the papers that make up the volume and we highlight the main findings and significance of each. First, however, we highlight three areas relating to sedimentation in glacimarine environments where we believe significant progress has been made in the last 11 years. These are: (1) glacially-influenced continental slope sedimentation; (2) iceberg-rafting processes and events; and (3) reconstructing the dynamics of former marineterminating ice sheets from glacial geomorphological evidence on continental shelves. Each of these areas is represented by papers in this volume.
Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has focused on the record of glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental slopes (e.g. Kuvaas & Kristoffersen 1991; Aksu & Hiscott 1992; Vorren & Laberg 1997; Anderson 1999; Kleiber et al. 2000). Some of the most detailed work on this topic has been conducted around the continental margins of the Polar North Atlantic, where extensive geophysical and geological data-sets have been used to investigate the morphology and sedimentary architecture of glacier-influenced continental slopes (e.g.
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