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    Ice rafting is the transport of various materials by ice. Various objects deposited on ice may eventually become embedded in the ice. When the ice melts...
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    of the ice flow route. They can be transported by ice rafting, which allows quantification of the extent of glacial flooding resulting from ice dam failures...
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    Rafting and whitewater rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often...
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    Bond events are North Atlantic ice rafting events that are tentatively linked to climate fluctuations in the Holocene. Eight such events have been identified...
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    the minimum age of ice rafting at sample locations. Investigations of ice-rafted debris reasonably conclude that the Antarctic ice sheet was initiated...
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    North Atlantic ice rafting events Great Frost of 1709 – Coldest recorded winter in Europe Historical climatology Late Antique Little Ice Age – Northern...
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    An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and...
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    characteristics of a deposition directly after suspension in a turbulent flow. Ice-rafted boulders up to several meters in diameter. Eddy deposits are seen along...
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    Chapman, M.R.; Shackleton, N.J. (1999). "Global ice-volume fluctuations, North Atlantic ice-rafting events, and deep-ocean circulation changes between...
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    Finger rafting develops in an ice cover as a result of a compression regime established within the plane of the ice. As two expanses of sea ice converge...
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  • Rafting is traveling by raft. Rafting may also refer to: Rafting event, in the context of biological migrations Timber rafting, log transportation method...
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    and were entombed in limestone 470 million years ago. Glacial erratic Ice rafting Bennett, MR; Doyle, P; Mather, AE; Woodfin, JL (1994). "Testing the climatic...
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  • and published in 2003. In the book, Tom and Hester stumble across the ice raft of Anchorage. Predator's Gold is set two years after Mortal Engines. In...
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    with evidence of polar rainforests during this time interval at 82° S. Rafting by ice of stones into marine environments occurred during much of the Cretaceous...
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    Compaction Concretion Exner equation Fluvial processes Glacier flow ice-sheet dynamics ice rafting Lithification Siltation Turbidity currents By structure Sedimentary...
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    Heinrich, Hartmut (March 1988). "Origin and Consequences of Cyclic Ice Rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean During the Past 130,000 Years". Quaternary...
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    geological detritus is transported to the place of deposition by water, wind, ice or mass movement, which are called agents of denudation. Biological detritus...
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    blocks of ice rafting down the Columbia River and the Willamette Valley at the end of the last Ice Age (~13,000 years ago). Some of these ice rafts included...
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  • Group, where dropstone formations were likely formed by debris from ice rafting; the area, then situated between 35–50°S, was a (possibly upland) lake...
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    Compaction Concretion Exner equation Fluvial processes Glacier flow ice-sheet dynamics ice rafting Lithification Siltation Turbidity currents By structure Sedimentary...
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    Heinrich, Hartmut (1 March 1988). "Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130,000 years". Quaternary...
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  • cover in the Antarctic region. Among all the lithological indicators, ice-rafted debris (IRD) is the most useful tool to reconstruct paleoclimate. High...
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    Compaction Concretion Exner equation Fluvial processes Glacier flow ice-sheet dynamics ice rafting Lithification Siltation Turbidity currents By structure Sedimentary...
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    descriptions of redirect targets 5.9 kiloyear event – North Atlantic ice rafting eventsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets 8.2 kiloyear...
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    Last Glacial Maximum (category Ice ages)
    global cooling around 8,200 years ago 5.9 kiloyear event – North Atlantic ice rafting eventsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets 4.2-kiloyear...
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    erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand and...
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  • contrast in interest rates between two similar interest-bearing assets Ice rafting debris International Road Dynamics Inherited Retina#Diseases and disorders...
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  • Krissek, Lawrence A. (28 June 2008). "The late Miocene to Pleistocene ice-rafting history of southeast Greenland". Boreas. 31 (1): 28–35. doi:10.1111/j...
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    The formation of an Arctic ice cap is signaled by an abrupt shift in oxygen isotope ratios, the appearance of ice-rafted cobbles in the North Atlantic...
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    wind-borne particles from Sudan (left) blow over the Red Sea Glaciers and ice rafting: As glaciers grind their way over land, they pick up lots of soil and...
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