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Author : Briscoe, A.J.
Date : 1968.
Title : Glaciers.
Publication : Science
Issue : 162(3852):
Page(s) : 480-481.
Abstract
This is a brief report on a conference held in Banff, Alberta, on June 6-8, 1968, at which particular emphasis was placed on the possible geologic effects of surging glaciers, now and in the past. The Steele glacier in the southwestern Yukon, one of the better known surging glaciers, was the subject of several papers. The possibility of glacial surges at the margins of continental glaciers is of great importance to Pleistocene geologists, because interpretations of glacial history are now based on the assumption that the ice fronts were stable for relatively long time spans in areas of prominent recessional moraines, and that advances along the margins of different lobes were synchronous. Certain observations on recent glaciers suggest that these assumptions are not necessarily valid.
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