Temperate glacier

Eountain A, Walder J (1998) Water flow through temperate glaciers. Rev Geophys 36 299... 

Fountain AG, Jacobel RW, Schlichting R, Jansson P (2005) Fractures as the main pathways of water flow in temperate glaciers. Nature 433 618... 

Eyles N., Sasseville D. R., Slatt R. M., and Rogerson R. J. (1982) Geochemical denudation rates and solute transport mechanisms in a maritime temperate glacier basin. Can. J. Earth Sci. 19, 1570-1581. 

Nye, J. F. and Frank, F. C. 1973. Hydrology of the intergranular veins in a temperate glacier. International Association of Scientific Hydrology Publication 95 (Symposium at Cunbridge 1969—Hydrology of Glacis), 157-161. 

For temperate regions, the history of the surface temperature of the oceans is stored in the glaciers of those regions, but glaciers have random advances and retreats which spoil the orderly sequence of the historic yearly ice layers. 

Glacial comminution crushes bedrock and exposes the trace-reactive components more rapidly than in temperate and tropical soils, where new minerals are ultimately accessed via solubilization of aluminosilicate minerals. Hence, glaciers are effective at promoting the solubilization of trace-reactive components in the bedrock, which include carbonates, sulfides, and fluid inclusions. 

PoweU, R.D. 1983. Glaciomarine sedimentation processes and Uthofacies of temperate tidewater glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska. In Glacial-Marine Sedimentation, Molnia, B.F., ed. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 185-232. 

The abundances of the different groups of Antarctic meteorites should resemble the abundances of falls because a representative fraction of all of the specimens that land on the accumulation area of the East Antarctic ice sheet ultimately emerge on the icefields of the ablation zone even though specimens in outflow glaciers are lost at sea. The abundances of meteorites that are found in areas where the climate is temperate or tropical... 

Fig. 19.24 The Peleus till was deposited by a temperate wet-based glacier that flowed across the rocky threshold into the Wright Valley during the early Pliocene less than 4-5 miUion years ago. The thickening of the East Antarctic ice sheet was caused by an episode of climatic warming. The surface of the...

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The phenomenon also defines the boundary between temperate and cold ice in polythermal glaciers. The former is loosely defined by glaciologists as ice at a temperature near 0°C, while the latter is cold and dry. Both types of ice are present in polythermal glaciers, and the boundary between them moves in response to changes in the environment, but it moves slowly, on the order of 10 meters in 100 years and slows down with time. 

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