The Morphological Characteristics of Ribbed Moraine

P Dunlop; C.D Clark

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.002

The Morphological Characteristics of Ribbed Moraine

P Dunlop, C.D Clark

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Abstract

Ribbed (Rogen) moraines are large subglacially formed transverse ridges that cover extensive areas of the former Laurentide,Scandinavian and Irish ice sheets. Given their ubiquitous and conspicuous nature, it is surprising that their characteristics are poorlyunderstood. To date, most ribbed moraine studies have been spatially restricted and rely on small sample sizes. Thus, published accounts of their characteristics are most likely unrepresentative of ribbed moraines generally. This study addresses this deficit by producing the first representative data set on ribbed moraine size, shape, pattern and distribution and we describe their spatial characteristics. Various remote sensing and GIS techniques were used to map ribbed moraines over a combined area of 81,000km2 in Canada, Ireland and Sweden producing a database of just over 33,000 individual landforms. In all, 25,082 ridges were mapped in two areas in central and northern Quebec (the Lac Naococane and River Kaniapiskau regions), 5637 in the Lake Rogen area of central Sweden and 2500 in north central Ireland. In comparison against the published accounts of ribbed moraine we demonstrate that some widely held assertions areinaccurate or untrue, and we show that ribbed moraine morphological characteristics are more complex than has been hitherto reported. Our data reveals they exist over a larger scale range than was previously stated. This study concludes by presenting a list of ribbedmoraine characteristics and argues that formational hypotheses must account for these if they are to remain valid explanations of ribbed moraine genesis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1668-1691
Journal	Quaternary Science Reviews
Volume	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.002
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2 Jan 2006

Bibliographical note

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Aber et al., 1993 Aber, J.S., Spellman, E.E., Webster, M.P., 1993. Landsat remote sensing of glaciated terraine. In: J.S. Aber (Ed.), Glaciotectonics and Mapping Glacial Deposits, Proceedings of the INQUA Commission on Formation and Properties of Glacial Deposits, pp. 215–225.

Aylsworth and Shilts, 1989 J.M. Aylsworth and W.W. Shilts, Bedforms of the Keewatin Ice Sheet, Canada, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 407–428. Abstract | PDF (3062 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (28)

Benn and Evans, 1998 D.I. Benn and D.J.A. Evans, Glaciers and Glaciation, Arnold, London (1998).

Bouchard, 1980 Bouchard, M.A., 1980. Late Quaternary geology of the Témiscamie area, central Quebec, Canada. Dissertation, Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University, 284pp.

Bouchard, 1989 M.A. Bouchard, Subglacial landforms and deposits in central and northern Québec, Canada, with emphasis on Rogen moraines, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 293–308. Abstract | PDF (1638 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (29)

Boulton, 1987 Boulton, G.S., 1987. A theory of drumlin formation by subglacial deformation. In: Menzies, J., Rose, J. (Eds.), Drumlin Symposium. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 25–80.

Boulton and Clark, 1990 G.S. Boulton and C.D. Clark, A highly mobile Laurentide Ice Sheet revealed by satellite images of glacial lineations, Nature 346 (1990), pp. 813–817. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (89)

Clark, 1993 C.D. Clark, Mega-scale lineations and cross-cutting ice-flow landforms, Earth Surface Process and Landforms 18 (1993), pp. 1–29. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (137)

Clark, 1997 C.D. Clark, Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of former ice sheets using multi-temporal evidence, remote sensing and GIS, Quaternary Science Reviews 16 (1997), pp. 1067–1092. Abstract | PDF (2477 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (61)

Clark and Meehan, 2001 C.D. Clark and R. Meehan, Subglacial bedform geomorphology of the Irish Ice Sheet reveals major configuration changes during growth and decay, Journal of Quaternary Science 16 (2001), pp. 483–496. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (34)

Clark et al., 2000 C.D. Clark, J.K. Knight and J.T. Gray, Geomorphological reconstruction of the Labrador Sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Quaternary Science Reviews 19 (2000), pp. 1343–1366. Article | PDF (3660 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (42)

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Dunlop, 2004 Dunlop, P., 2004. The characteristics of ribbed moraine and assessment of theories for their genesis. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, The University of Sheffield, 363pp.

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Fisher and Shaw, 1992 T.G. Fisher and J. Shaw, A depositional model for Rogen Moraine, with examples from the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 29 (1992), pp. 669–686. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (26)

Frödin, 1954 G. Frödin, De sista skedena av CentralJämtlands glaciala historia, Geographica 24 (1954), pp. 1–251.

Hättestrand, 1997 C. Hättestrand, Ribbed moraines in Sweden—distribution pattern and Palaeoglaciological implications, Sedimentary Geology 111 (1997), pp. 41–56. Abstract | PDF (1550 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (46)

Hättestrand and Kleman, 1999 C. Hättestrand and J. Kleman, Ribbed moraine formation, Quaternary Science Reviews 18 (1999), pp. 43–61. Abstract | PDF (2019 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (35)

Hegge and Masselink, 1996 B.J. Hegge and G. Masselink, Spectral analysis of geomorphic time series: auto-correlation spectrum, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21 (1996), pp. 1021–1040. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (18)

Hindmarsh, 1998a R.C.A. Hindmarsh, The stability of a viscous till sheet coupled with ice flow, considered at wavelengths less than ice thickness, Journal of Glaciology 44 (1998), pp. 288–292.

Hindmarsh, 1998b R.C.A. Hindmarsh, Drumlinization and drumlin-forming instabilities: viscous till mechanisms, Journal of Glaciology 44 (1998), pp. 293–314. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (30)

Hindmarsh, 1999 R.C.A. Hindmarsh, Coupled ice-till dynamics and the seeding of drumlins and bedrock forms, Annals of Glaciology 28 (1999), pp. 221–230. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (8)

Hoppe, 1952 G. Hoppe, Glacial morphology and inland ice recession in northern Sweden, Geografiska Annaler 41 (1952), pp. 193–212.

Jansson et al., 2002 K.N. Jansson, J. Kleman and D.R. Marchant, The succession of ice-flow patterns in north central Québec-Labrador, Canada, Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (2002), pp. 503–523. Article | PDF (2723 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (15)

Kitmitto et al., 2000 K. Kitmitto, M. Cooper, C.C. Venters, J.P. Muller, J.G. Morley, A. Walker and S. Rana, LANDMAP: serving satellite imagery to the UK academic community. In: RSS2000 Adding Value to Remotely Sensed Data, University of Leicester (2000).

Kleman and Hättestrand, 1999 J. Kleman and C. Hättestrand, Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature 402 (1999), pp. 63–66. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (107)

Kleman et al., 1997 J. Kleman, C. Hättestrand, I. Borgström and A. Stroeven, Fennoscandian palaeoglaciology reconstructed using a glacial geological inversion model, Journal of Glaciology 43 (1997), pp. 283–299. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (131)

Knight and McCabe, 1997 J. Knight and A.M. McCabe, Identification and significance of ice-flow transverse subglacial ridges (Rogen moraines) in northern central Ireland, Journal of Quaternary Science 12 (1997) (6), pp. 519–534.

Kurimo, 1980 H. Kurimo, Depositional deglaciation forms as indicators of different glacial and glaciomarginal environments, Boreas 9 (1980), pp. 179–191. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (9)

Lidmar-Bergström et al., 1991 K. Lidmar-Bergström, C. Elvhage and B. Ringberg, Landforms in Skane, south Sweden, Geografiska Annaler 73A (1991), pp. 61–91. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (11)

Lundqvist, 1969 Lundqvist, J., 1969. Problems of the so-called Rogen moraine. Sverige Geologiske Undersökning, Series C, 648.

Lundqvist, 1989 J. Lundqvist, Rogen (ribbed) moraine: identification and possible origin, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 281–292. Abstract | PDF (1116 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (38)

Lundqvist, 1997 J. Lundqvist, Rogen moraine—an example of two-step formation of glacial landscapes, Sedimentary Geology 111 (1997), pp. 27–40. Abstract | PDF (4751 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (13)

Markgren and Lassila, 1980 M. Markgren and M. Lassila, Problems of moraine morphology, Rogen moraine and Blattnick moraine, Boreas 9 (1980), pp. 271–274. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (6)

McCabe et al., 1999 A.M. McCabe, J. Knight and S.G. Mc Carron, Ice-flow stages and glacial bedforms in north central Ireland: a record of rapid environmental change during the last glacial termination, Journal of the Geological Society, London 156 (1999), pp. 63–72. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (21)

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note = "Reference text: References Aario, 1977 R. Aario, Classification and terminology of morainic landforms in Finland, Boreas 6 (1977), pp. 87–100. Aber et al., 1993 Aber, J.S., Spellman, E.E., Webster, M.P., 1993. Landsat remote sensing of glaciated terraine. In: J.S. Aber (Ed.), Glaciotectonics and Mapping Glacial Deposits, Proceedings of the INQUA Commission on Formation and Properties of Glacial Deposits, pp. 215–225. Aylsworth and Shilts, 1989 J.M. Aylsworth and W.W. Shilts, Bedforms of the Keewatin Ice Sheet, Canada, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 407–428. Abstract | PDF (3062 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (28) Benn and Evans, 1998 D.I. Benn and D.J.A. Evans, Glaciers and Glaciation, Arnold, London (1998). Bouchard, 1980 Bouchard, M.A., 1980. Late Quaternary geology of the T{\'e}miscamie area, central Quebec, Canada. Dissertation, Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University, 284pp. Bouchard, 1989 M.A. Bouchard, Subglacial landforms and deposits in central and northern Qu{\'e}bec, Canada, with emphasis on Rogen moraines, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 293–308. Abstract | PDF (1638 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (29) Boulton, 1987 Boulton, G.S., 1987. A theory of drumlin formation by subglacial deformation. In: Menzies, J., Rose, J. (Eds.), Drumlin Symposium. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 25–80. Boulton and Clark, 1990 G.S. Boulton and C.D. Clark, A highly mobile Laurentide Ice Sheet revealed by satellite images of glacial lineations, Nature 346 (1990), pp. 813–817. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (89) Clark, 1993 C.D. Clark, Mega-scale lineations and cross-cutting ice-flow landforms, Earth Surface Process and Landforms 18 (1993), pp. 1–29. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (137) Clark, 1997 C.D. Clark, Reconstructing the evolutionary dynamics of former ice sheets using multi-temporal evidence, remote sensing and GIS, Quaternary Science Reviews 16 (1997), pp. 1067–1092. Abstract | PDF (2477 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (61) Clark and Meehan, 2001 C.D. Clark and R. Meehan, Subglacial bedform geomorphology of the Irish Ice Sheet reveals major configuration changes during growth and decay, Journal of Quaternary Science 16 (2001), pp. 483–496. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (34) Clark et al., 2000 C.D. Clark, J.K. Knight and J.T. Gray, Geomorphological reconstruction of the Labrador Sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Quaternary Science Reviews 19 (2000), pp. 1343–1366. Article | PDF (3660 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (42) Cowan, 1968 W. Cowan, Ribbed moraine: till fabric analysis and origin, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5 (1968), pp. 1145–1159. Dunlop, 2004 Dunlop, P., 2004. The characteristics of ribbed moraine and assessment of theories for their genesis. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, The University of Sheffield, 363pp. Dunlop and Clark, 2006 Dunlop, P., Clark, C.D., 2006. Distribution of ribbed moraines in the Lac Naococane Region, Central Qu{\'e}bec, Canada. Journal of Maps 2006, 59–70. Dyke et al., 1992 A.S. Dyke, T.F. Morris, D.E.C. Green and J. England, Quaternary geology of Prince of Wales Island, Arctic Canada, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 433 (1992), p. 142. Fisher and Shaw, 1992 T.G. Fisher and J. Shaw, A depositional model for Rogen Moraine, with examples from the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 29 (1992), pp. 669–686. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (26) Fr{\"o}din, 1954 G. Fr{\"o}din, De sista skedena av CentralJ{\"a}mtlands glaciala historia, Geographica 24 (1954), pp. 1–251. H{\"a}ttestrand, 1997 C. H{\"a}ttestrand, Ribbed moraines in Sweden—distribution pattern and Palaeoglaciological implications, Sedimentary Geology 111 (1997), pp. 41–56. Abstract | PDF (1550 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (46) H{\"a}ttestrand and Kleman, 1999 C. H{\"a}ttestrand and J. Kleman, Ribbed moraine formation, Quaternary Science Reviews 18 (1999), pp. 43–61. Abstract | PDF (2019 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (35) Hegge and Masselink, 1996 B.J. Hegge and G. Masselink, Spectral analysis of geomorphic time series: auto-correlation spectrum, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21 (1996), pp. 1021–1040. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (18) Hindmarsh, 1998a R.C.A. Hindmarsh, The stability of a viscous till sheet coupled with ice flow, considered at wavelengths less than ice thickness, Journal of Glaciology 44 (1998), pp. 288–292. Hindmarsh, 1998b R.C.A. Hindmarsh, Drumlinization and drumlin-forming instabilities: viscous till mechanisms, Journal of Glaciology 44 (1998), pp. 293–314. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (30) Hindmarsh, 1999 R.C.A. Hindmarsh, Coupled ice-till dynamics and the seeding of drumlins and bedrock forms, Annals of Glaciology 28 (1999), pp. 221–230. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (8) Hoppe, 1952 G. Hoppe, Glacial morphology and inland ice recession in northern Sweden, Geografiska Annaler 41 (1952), pp. 193–212. Jansson et al., 2002 K.N. Jansson, J. Kleman and D.R. Marchant, The succession of ice-flow patterns in north central Qu{\'e}bec-Labrador, Canada, Quaternary Science Reviews 21 (2002), pp. 503–523. Article | PDF (2723 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (15) Kitmitto et al., 2000 K. Kitmitto, M. Cooper, C.C. Venters, J.P. Muller, J.G. Morley, A. Walker and S. Rana, LANDMAP: serving satellite imagery to the UK academic community. In: RSS2000 Adding Value to Remotely Sensed Data, University of Leicester (2000). Kleman and H{\"a}ttestrand, 1999 J. Kleman and C. H{\"a}ttestrand, Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature 402 (1999), pp. 63–66. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (107) Kleman et al., 1997 J. Kleman, C. H{\"a}ttestrand, I. Borgstr{\"o}m and A. Stroeven, Fennoscandian palaeoglaciology reconstructed using a glacial geological inversion model, Journal of Glaciology 43 (1997), pp. 283–299. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (131) Knight and McCabe, 1997 J. Knight and A.M. McCabe, Identification and significance of ice-flow transverse subglacial ridges (Rogen moraines) in northern central Ireland, Journal of Quaternary Science 12 (1997) (6), pp. 519–534. Kurimo, 1980 H. Kurimo, Depositional deglaciation forms as indicators of different glacial and glaciomarginal environments, Boreas 9 (1980), pp. 179–191. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (9) Lidmar-Bergstr{\"o}m et al., 1991 K. Lidmar-Bergstr{\"o}m, C. Elvhage and B. Ringberg, Landforms in Skane, south Sweden, Geografiska Annaler 73A (1991), pp. 61–91. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (11) Lundqvist, 1969 Lundqvist, J., 1969. Problems of the so-called Rogen moraine. Sverige Geologiske Unders{\"o}kning, Series C, 648. Lundqvist, 1989 J. Lundqvist, Rogen (ribbed) moraine: identification and possible origin, Sedimentary Geology 62 (1989), pp. 281–292. Abstract | PDF (1116 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (38) Lundqvist, 1997 J. Lundqvist, Rogen moraine—an example of two-step formation of glacial landscapes, Sedimentary Geology 111 (1997), pp. 27–40. Abstract | PDF (4751 K) | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (13) Markgren and Lassila, 1980 M. Markgren and M. Lassila, Problems of moraine morphology, Rogen moraine and Blattnick moraine, Boreas 9 (1980), pp. 271–274. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (6) McCabe et al., 1999 A.M. McCabe, J. Knight and S.G. Mc Carron, Ice-flow stages and glacial bedforms in north central Ireland: a record of rapid environmental change during the last glacial termination, Journal of the Geological Society, London 156 (1999), pp. 63–72. Full Text via CrossRef | View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (21) Menzies, 1987 Menzies, J., 1987. Towards a general hypothesis on the formation of drumlins. In: Menzies, J., Rose, J. (Eds.), Drumlin Symposium. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 9–24. Menzies and Shilts, 1996 J. Menzies and W.W. Shilts, Subglacial environments. In: J. Menzies, Editor, Past Glacial Environments: Sediments Forms and Techniques, Butterworth Heineman, Oxford (1996) 605pp. Minell, 1980 H. Minell, The distribution of local bedrock material in some moraine forms from the inner part of northern Sweden, Boreas 9 (1980), pp. 275–281. 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N2 - Ribbed (Rogen) moraines are large subglacially formed transverse ridges that cover extensive areas of the former Laurentide,Scandinavian and Irish ice sheets. Given their ubiquitous and conspicuous nature, it is surprising that their characteristics are poorlyunderstood. To date, most ribbed moraine studies have been spatially restricted and rely on small sample sizes. Thus, published accounts of their characteristics are most likely unrepresentative of ribbed moraines generally. This study addresses this deficit by producing the first representative data set on ribbed moraine size, shape, pattern and distribution and we describe their spatial characteristics. Various remote sensing and GIS techniques were used to map ribbed moraines over a combined area of 81,000km2 in Canada, Ireland and Sweden producing a database of just over 33,000 individual landforms. In all, 25,082 ridges were mapped in two areas in central and northern Quebec (the Lac Naococane and River Kaniapiskau regions), 5637 in the Lake Rogen area of central Sweden and 2500 in north central Ireland. In comparison against the published accounts of ribbed moraine we demonstrate that some widely held assertions areinaccurate or untrue, and we show that ribbed moraine morphological characteristics are more complex than has been hitherto reported. Our data reveals they exist over a larger scale range than was previously stated. This study concludes by presenting a list of ribbedmoraine characteristics and argues that formational hypotheses must account for these if they are to remain valid explanations of ribbed moraine genesis.

AB - Ribbed (Rogen) moraines are large subglacially formed transverse ridges that cover extensive areas of the former Laurentide,Scandinavian and Irish ice sheets. Given their ubiquitous and conspicuous nature, it is surprising that their characteristics are poorlyunderstood. To date, most ribbed moraine studies have been spatially restricted and rely on small sample sizes. Thus, published accounts of their characteristics are most likely unrepresentative of ribbed moraines generally. This study addresses this deficit by producing the first representative data set on ribbed moraine size, shape, pattern and distribution and we describe their spatial characteristics. Various remote sensing and GIS techniques were used to map ribbed moraines over a combined area of 81,000km2 in Canada, Ireland and Sweden producing a database of just over 33,000 individual landforms. In all, 25,082 ridges were mapped in two areas in central and northern Quebec (the Lac Naococane and River Kaniapiskau regions), 5637 in the Lake Rogen area of central Sweden and 2500 in north central Ireland. In comparison against the published accounts of ribbed moraine we demonstrate that some widely held assertions areinaccurate or untrue, and we show that ribbed moraine morphological characteristics are more complex than has been hitherto reported. Our data reveals they exist over a larger scale range than was previously stated. This study concludes by presenting a list of ribbedmoraine characteristics and argues that formational hypotheses must account for these if they are to remain valid explanations of ribbed moraine genesis.

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