scholarly journals A tribute to Louis (1952): On the theory of glacial erosion in valleys

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Pierre G. Valla
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Geomorphology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 223 ◽  
pp. 96-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivi K. Pedersen ◽  
Ritske S. Huismans ◽  
Frédéric Herman ◽  
David L. Egholm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav Pallisgaard-Olesen ◽  
Vivi Kathrine Pedersen ◽  
Natalya Gomez

<div> <p>The landscape in western Scandinavia has undergone dramatic changes through numerous glaciations during the Quaternary. These changes in topography and in the volumes of offshore sediment deposits, have caused significant isostatic adjustments and local sea level changes, owing to erosional unloading and depositional loading of the lithosphere. Mass redistribution from erosion and deposition also has the potential to cause significant pertubations of the geoid, resulting in additional sea-level changes. The combined sea-level response from these processes, is yet to be investigated in detail for Scandinavia.</p> </div><div> <p>In this study we estimate the total sea level change from late-Pliocene- Quaternary glacial erosion and deposition in the Scandinavian region, using a gravitationally self-consistent global sea level model that includes the full viscoelastic response of the solid Earth to surface loading and unloading. In addition to the total late Pliocene-Quaternary mass redistribution, we <span>also </span>estimate transient sea level changes related specifically to the two latest glacial cycles.</p> </div><div> <p>We utilize existing observations of offshore sediment thicknesses of glacial origin, and combine these with estimates of onshore glacial erosion and estimates of erosion on the inner shelf. Based on these estimates, we can define mass redistribution and construct a preglacial landscape setting.</p> </div><div> <p>Our preliminary results show <span>perturbations of</span> the local sea level up to ∼ 200 m since<span> the</span> late-Pliocene in the Norwegian Sea, suggesting that erosion and deposition ha<span>ve</span> influenced the local paleo sea level history in Scandinavia significantly.</p> </div>


1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 448-453
Author(s):  
C. S. Du Riche Preller

Any geologist who, in these days, is still bold enough to affirm that the origin of Alpine Lakes generally is due to glacial erosion, must surely derive considerable comfort from a visit to the Upper Engadine; for the four lakes which adorn that valley appear, at first sight, to constitute so many typical examples of the erosive power of the ancient Inn glacier, and therefore a striking confirmation of that time-honoured theory. A closer and more extensive examination of the physiography of that exceedingly interesting district, leads, however, as in so many similar cases, to a very different, and precisely opposite conclusion.


1876 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 144-144
Author(s):  
George Greenwood
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