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Late Pleistocene Detrital Sediment Yield of the Jura Glacier, France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jean-François Buoncristiani  and
Michel Campy
Jean-François Buoncristiani
Affiliation:
UMR 5561 CNRS, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, Dijon, 21000, France, E-mail: jean-francois.buoncristiani@u-bourgogne.fr
Michel Campy
Affiliation:
UMR 5561 CNRS, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Université de Bourgogne, 6 boulevard Gabriel, Dijon, 21000, France, E-mail: jean-francois.buoncristiani@u-bourgogne.fr
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Abstract

Measures of present-day glacial erosion vary widely with the technique employed. This paper quantifies the glacial material trapped in a proglacial lake during the Würm glacial period. The Combe d'Ain site was occupied by a meltwater lake where all the detrital material entering it from the Jura glacier accumulated. Sediment yield is computed from three factors: (1) the size of the sediment source area, (2) the length of time the system operated, and (3) the volume of sediment trapped. The sediment budget of the lake system suggests a detrital sediment yield of 4400±1700 metric tons per square kilometer and per calendar year. This represents a denudation rate of 1.6±0.6 mm per year, illustrating that mechanical erosion by the Jura glacier is more intensive than other processes of erosion.

Keywords

glacial sediment yieldglacial denudationproglacial lakeseismic reflectionsedimentary budgetJuralast glacial period
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , July 2001 , pp. 51 - 61
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University of Washington

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