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Sediment dynamics of a major piedmont glacier: the Salzach Glacier in the North Alpine Foreland

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The foreland basins of the European Alps were repeatedly covered by major piedmont glaciers during Quaternary glacial maxima. The Salzach Glacier was the easternmost of a series of large Pleistocene piedmont glaciers entering the North Alpine Foreland through major Alpine valleys. It covered an area of more than 1000 km 2 during at least four glacial maxima. The slightly elevated molasse bedrock provides a high potential for preservation of glacial landforms and offers an ideal setting to explore the erosional and depositional dynamics of a major glacier piedmont lobe. This field excursion guide leads to some selected key sites representing deposits of glacial advance, relative equilibrium, and ice lobe collapse.

Source: DEUQUA Special Publications

DOI: 10.5194/deuquasp-5-31-2024

Authors: Bernhard Salcher, Reinhard Starnberger, Thomas Pollhammer, Joachim Götz

Institutions: University of Salzburg, Universität Innsbruck, University of Bayreuth

Language: English

Topic: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Subfield: Atmospheric Science

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Universität Salzburg

OpenAlex ID: W4402379247

FWCI: 0.191

Cites: 16

Cited by: 1

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