Good question.

Chapters 11 and 12: http://quizlet.com/subject/geob-103/

I TA-ed this course at UBC in Vancouver, Canada.

It is seems that you want to know in detail the process and application of Glacifluvial deposits. I think you can read it in the BOOK Glaciers and Glaciation by Benn and Evans, section 10.4. I hope this will help you a lot..........

Dear Dilli,

More than 10 years ago I make me a similar question because I was able to study geotechnics properties in very coarse sediments related to the last glacial cycle at the andorran glacial valley floor. Andorra is located in the Pyrenees range and more than the 80% of the population (about 75.000 persons) lives only in the 1% of the country surface (of only 465 Km2!!!), mainly over soft glaciogenic sediments. What makes characteristic of that upper Pleistocene glacial valley is that in the bottom of that valley the sediments had glaciofluvial fabric but some of them have been heavily overconsolidated, but some other layers beneath the heavely overconsolidated ones not. The whole valley floor had an accretional architecture based on several "bicouche" layers (I call them "a" and "b" layers), with a very important geotechnical consequences for the foundations of new buildings!!. In essence those bi-layers (bicouches) are related with subglacial meltwaters flowing through a porous media from high groundwater potentials (lateral moraines, glacial cirques, tributary valleys) to low groundwater potentials (ablation zone). A first numerical approach permit me to solve the mystery and reconstruct some aspects of the past glacial phenomenon. Here is the link (in spanish):

http://www.igeotest.ad/articles/vsart.asp?ID=32

Once that paper was published in Spain I contact Geoffrey S. Boulton from the University of Edinburgh (now retreated), a Geologist who always include hydrogeological and geotechnical aspects in their studies, tells me that he found in Iceland similar features but he called "A" to the soft layer and "B" to the consolidated layer (inverted to my "a" and "b" layers, but physically are the same layers), his paper was published five years before in an indexed journal and I recommend you:

BOULTON G.S. i DOBBIE, K.E. (1993) Consolidation of sediments by glaciers: relation between sediment geotechnics, soft-bed glacier dynamics and subglacial groundwater flow; J. Glaciology, 39, 26-44.

Related with the andorran upper Pleistocene glacier and the sedimentary architecture of the valley floor you have the next paper (in French):

http://www.igeotest.fr/articles/docs/Quaternaire%2018.pdf

Related with the geotechnical imprints of the subglacial melwater of Andorra you have the next papers (in English):

http://www.geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/sgp/LA/La05/LA5_Turu_1.pdf

http://www.geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/sgp/LA/La05/LA5_Turu_2.pdf

We are working now to the mathematic model and reconstruct so the paleogrography of the glacier related with an ancient dammed lateral lake (La Massana). From that lake I send you some links (in spanish), that maybe can help you:

http://www.igeotest.ad/articles/docs/Push%20Moraine.pdf

http://www.igeotest.ad/articles/docs/Delta%20Erts%20Part%201.pdf

http://www.igeotest.ad/articles/docs/Delta%20Erts%20Part%202.pdf

Thanks for the comments and suggestions

Textbooks and most published geologic reports greatly underestimate the amount of meltwater generated by continental ice sheets. One region where continental ice sheet meltwater features are being somewhat properly recognized is the Channeled Scabland region of Washington State in the United States of America. You might want to look at the following website to get some idea of how meltwater from continental ice sheets has significantly modified a large region.

http://www.iceagefloodsinstitute.org/

While much of the geologic literature interprets the Channeled Scablands in the context of sudden releases of huge volumes of water from large glacially dammed lakes, there are a growing number of geologists ascribing Channeled Scabland features to other continental ice sheet meltwater sources. If you study the region you may come to the conclusion the amount of meltwater erosion required significantly more meltwater than the hypothesized glacial lake failures could produce.

My own research published on my website geomorphologyresearch.com has convinced me that meltwater flow routes can be traced across large regions and can be used to demonstrate tectonic activity as well as the presence of continental ice sheets not presently recognized by the geologic community. While my research has been conducted in North America I have every reason to believe similar research results could be obtained from similar studies in Asia and Europe.

My research does challenge some well accepted geologic interpretations and has not been well accepted by colleagues for that reason. However, evidence I am using is easily seen on detailed topographic maps, has never been explained in the geologic literature, and there are numerous inconsistencies in the generally accepted geologic interpretations. The evidence I am dealing with cannot be explained in the context of the generally accepted geologic paradigm and for that reason has been ignored by previous researchers who cannot "see" evidence they cannot explain.

Whether you agree with my conclusions or not the evidence I am dealing with is real and needs to be explained. Study of that evidence can be a very productive research subject providing opportunities for major new discoveries. But, those new discoveries will probably conflict with presently held geologic interpretations and it will be an uphill fight to get your research results recognized.