Introduction
There are a wide variety of glaciated coasts, usually with both erosional and depositional features. Coasts may be actively glaciated systems, such as Antarctica, southeastern Alaska, and Greenland, or formerly glaciated regions such as Scandinavia, Scotland, northeastern Canada and New England, the Pacific Northwest, and southern Chile. Formerly glaciated, or paraglacial coasts (FitzGerald and van Heteren, 1999) are modified by modern coastal processes, and by changes during deglaciation such as permafrost action, outwash, isostatic rebound, and proglacial lacustrine and marine deposition and erosion. Glaciated coasts characteristically have moderate to high relief, with abundant bedrock outcrop. They occur in cold temperate to polar regions where modern glaciers and ice sheets are stable, or where perennial ice was stable down to sea level in glacial climates. Formerly glaciated coasts are found as far as 40° south and north as a result of the Wisconsin (Würm) Last...
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Belknap, D.F. (2005). Glaciated Coasts. In: Schwartz, M.L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Coastal Science. Encyclopedia of Earth Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_153
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