Moraines and Varves: Origin, Genesis, Classification

Ch. Schlüter

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9781040894231
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering

This is the Proceedings of the Ofan Inqua Symposium on Genesis and Lithology of Quaternary Deposits, Zurich, held on the 10-20 September 1978.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• Opening address
• Geology and genesis of moraines
• A. Valley glacier environment
• Sedimentation by valley glaciers; a model and genetic classification
• Systematic provenance investigations in areas of alpine glaciation: applications to glacial geology and mineral exploration
• Glacial sediments in the Venezuelan Andes
• Moraine forms and their recognition on steep mountain slopes
• Morainic deposits in Kashmir Himalayas
• Rate of formation and sedimentology of (1976–1978) push-moraines, Frias Glacier, Mount Tronador (41°10'S; 71°53′W), Argentina
• Sedimentology of two superimposed tills in the Bariloche Moraine (Nahuel Huapi Drift, Late Glacial), Rio Negro, Argentina
• Rock glacier morainic deposits in the eastern Pyrenees
• Quartärgeologische Untersuchungen im Nordwestteil des Salzach-Vorlandgletschers (Oberbayern)
• Granulometrische Untersuchungen zur Genese von Moränen im Salzkammergut, Österreich
• Considerations on the relations between landforms, sediments and genesis at ice margins of the Würm Maximum – Based on geomorphological mapping in the area of the former Iller Glacier (Allgäu/Bavaria)
• Glacigenic and glaciofluvial sediments, typification and sediment parameters
• B. General aspects and lowland environments
• Composition and dispersal of debris by modern glaciers, Bylot Island, Canada
• Glazigene Press-Schuppen, frontal und lateral
• The problems of waterlain tills
• The origin of preconsolidated and normally consolidated tills in eastern Wisconsin, USA
• La genèse des drumlins
• Some glaciogenic landforms in Glacier Bay National Monument, Southeastern Alaska
• Weichselian till stratigraphy in central South-Norway
• Moraines on the northern slopes and foothills of the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, south-west Ireland
• The patterns of deglaciation and associated depositional environments of till
• Changing conditions of glacial erosion and deposition reflected by differentiation of glacial deposits at Rozwady (Swietokrzyskie Mountains)
• C. Progress reports
• Die quartären Ablagerungen im übertieften Wolfratshausener Zungenbecken (Oberbayern)
• The effect of glacial-lacustrine relationships on the deposits of the Huron Lobe during the Late Wisconsinan, south eastern Michigan
• Complex till sections in the western Swiss Plain
• Analysis of Pre-Pleistocene glacigenic rocks: Aims and problems
• Varves and glaciolacustrine sedimentation
• Introductory remarks
• Origin and composition of clastic varves
• Varve-like sediments of the Walensee, Switzerland
• Rhythmite deposition in lakes of the northeastern United States
• The laminated sediments of Crawford Lake, southern Ontario Canada
• Varves in the Black Sea and in Lake Van (Turkey)
• Varve-chronologies and their teleconnections, 14000–750 B.C.
• Sedimentology of a tidal lake, Pitt Lake, British Columbia, Canada
• Deglaciation and glaciolacustrine sedimentation conditions, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada
• Deltaic sedimentation in glacial Lake Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland
• Paleogeography of Lake Biwa, Japan – and deep drilling site investigations in ancient lakes
• Contributions related to the field excursion
• Introductory remarks
• Synoptic history of the Quaternary of Switzerland
• Genesis of lateral moraine complexes, demonstrated by fossil soils and trunks; indicators of postglacial climatic fluctuations
• Penecontemporaneous deformation structures in a Pleistocene periglacial delta of western Swiss Plateau
• Intrastratal contortions in a glacio-lacustrine sediment sequence in the eastern Swiss Plain