OUTLET GLACIER TROUGH SIZE DRAINAGE AREA RELATIONSHIPS, FJORDLAND, NEW-ZEALAND

被引：14

作者：

AUGUSTINUS, PC

机构：

[1] Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton

来源：

GEOMORPHOLOGY | 1992年 / 4卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1016/0169-555X(92)90028-M

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

This paper examines relationships between the area supplying ice to fiord troughs and various measures of fiord size such as depth, width and length in Fiordland, New Zealand. The size of the outlet troughs was found to be adjusted to the discharge of ice, following a similar relationship to that encountered with fiords developed under essentially cold-based ice sheets in British Columbia. However, the Fiordland outlet troughs were substantially shorter and shallower than their counterparts in British Columbia. This difference may reflect contrast in mode of erosion in each case, although the major dimensions of the fiords undoubtedly reflect the controlling influence of the pre-glacial landscape upon which ice-caps were superimposed with their radiating outlet glaciers.

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页码：347 / 361

页数：15