Glaciolacustrine Environments
Glacial lakes are key components of the deglacial record of Pleistocene ice sheets and have had a profound effect on both their dynamics and on glacier-climate interaction. Over the last 7 years Professor Bennett in collaboration with Professor David Huddart (Liverpool John Moores University) has been developing a range of landform-sediment models on the basis of modern analogue studies in Svalbard, Iceland and Alaska with which to decipher the deglacial record and unlock the potential information within these glaciolacustrine environments. Recent work has developed new models of basin-fill architecture for a regional glaciolacustrine basin in Alaska. This work has demonstrated the potential of such basins as important palaeo-environmental archives. Professor Bennett is particularly interested in the application of sequence stratigraphy to lacustrine and glaciolacustrine environments and this interest has led to work in the Crow Flats, Yukon and in the Valsequillo Basin in Mexico, The Oldest American? Footprints from the past.
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Selected Publications
BENNETT, M.R., HAMBREY, M.J., HUDDART, D., GLASSER, N.F. & CRAWFORD, K. 1998. The ice-dammed lakes of Ossian Sarsfjellet (Svalbard): their geomorphology and significance. Boreas 27, 1-19.
BENNETT, M.R., HUDDART, D. & McCORMICK, T. 2000. The glaciolacustrine landform-sediment assemblage at Heinabergsjökull, Iceland. Geografiska Annaler 82A, 1-16.
BENNETT, M.R., HUDDART, D. & McCORMICK, T. 2000. An integrated approach to the study of glaciolacustrine landforms and sediments: a case study from Hagavatn, Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 633-665.
HUDDART, D. & BENNETT, M.R. 2000. Subsidence structures associated with subaerial desiccation-crack piping and their role in drainage evolution on a drained proglacial lake bed: Hagavatn, Iceland. Journal of Sedimentary Research 70, 993-1001.
BENNETT, M.R., HUDDART, D., & THOMAS, G.S.P. 2002. Facies architecture within a regional glaciolacustrine basin: Copper River, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 2237-2279.
