Subglacial Regelation Water Film

Author:

Hallet Bernard

Abstract

AbstractRecent studies of subglacially precipitated carbonate deposits and associated solutional furrows have provided interesting new insight on subglacial water films, as well as on chemical exchange at the glacier bed. Considerable information on the film thickness and its temporal and spatial variability has been gained by analyzing several properties of subglacial carbonate deposits including: (1) the morphology of surface features aligned parallel to ice flow, (2) the laminated structure, and (3) the size distribution of fine rock fragments presumably transported in the film prior to their incorporation in the deposits. Chemical analyses of water from pro-glacial streams, together with calculations of CaCO3 solubility and mass balance, show that the channelized water is chemically distinct from the film water in which CaCO3 precipitates, and that subglacial precipitation is not possible where there is a considerable water flux through the film in excess of that associated with regelation sliding. The principal implication of these studies is that a temperate cirque glacier is characteristically separated from its bed by a thin water film, probably micrometers in thickness; however, the film appears to occasionally thicken, at least locally by as much as a hundred fold in exceptional cases. Furthermore, the water flux and/or solute concentration in the basal film undergoes periodic, probably seasonal, variations possibly related to variations in the amount of water reaching and flowing through the basal film.

Publisher

International Glaciological Society

Subject

Earth-Surface Processes

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