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- Title
Lacuna band (surface depressions) occurrence and conditions of formation, Bering Glacier, Alaska.
- Authors
FLEISHER, P. Jay
- Abstract
Bering Glacier lacunas are steep-sided flat-floored depressions ranging from 40 to 60 m wide, 80 to 120 m long and 35 to 50 m deep. They are confined within a band of debris-free ice (1.5 km wide, 5 km long) parallel to the eastern margin of the Bering piedmont lobe. After the 1993-95 surge displaced the lacuna band several kilometers onto the foreland, a new band of lacunas began to form 5- 6 years later in the same location as occupied by the displaced band. Conditions essential to lacuna formation were initiated during the surge, as overriding ice was thrust into position across the trend of a subglacial trough, leading to stagnation deep within the trough. It is proposed that stagnation combined with englacial water movement altered ice crystal fabric and resistance to ablation. Exposure of this ice through normal ablation led to differential ablation and the formation of lacunas.
- Subjects
BERING Glacier (Alaska); ICE crystals; ABLATION (Glaciology); GLACIERS; POTHOLES (Geology); STAGNATION point
- Publication
Journal of Glaciology, 2015, Vol 61, Issue 226, p280
- ISSN
0022-1430
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3189/2015JoG14J203