Classification of glacial landforms created by ice sheets

Abstract

For the first time a multistep genetic classification of glacial landforms due to ice sheets is introduced, its place in the general system of cryogenous landforms being specified. The subdivision is based on the phase state of the relief-forming agent (ice or water), then the subdivision proceeds on the basis of the dynamical state. Further the landforms are grouped into genetic complexes according to different relief-forming processes; each of the latter is in turn divided into groups of landforms which are in paragenetic connection.