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Figure 8 It is suggested that formation of the internal structure of sandy sediments and rising of the diapirs are strongly coupled. As a result of the formation of the clayey silt or silty clay diapirs overlaying sandy sediments were protruded. Above the topmost portion of diapirs the sandy bed was simultaneously sloped upward and eroded. Sliding over the area situated in the lateral portion of the AGT the active ice immediately sheared off and assimilated the material from the sand bed above rising diapirs and deposited it in subsiding and distally located spaces between the diapirs with only minor admixture of the far-traveled coarse-grained and fine-grained material (Fig. 8). In most cases the silt composing diapirs did not reach the ice- bed interface and were not incorporated in the glacigenic diamicton. The contemporaneous operation of both processes due to diapirism is marked by monoclinally dipping margins of the upper till unit. Figure 8. Principal model showing sediment redistribution at the glacier bed caused by diapiric flow. A — Map view of the material transport from diapir rising areas into interdiapir subsiding spaces. B — Cross section parallel to the axis of the glacial flow. C — Graph showing changes in the glacier sliding velocity.
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