Index 881
Sediment deposition, 804
Sediment transport, 273, 317, 335
Sedimentary basins, 436, 444
Seiches, 200
Seine, 248
Seligman, Gerald, 718
Separation, 308, 322
Severn bore, 248
Shadowing function, 664
Shale, 387, 436, 539
Shallow ice approximation, 626, 628
for glaciers, 626
for ice sheets, 631
for ice shelves, 647
for ice streams, 668
Shallow water theory, 628
Shaw, John, 726
Shear force, 763
Shear layer, 302
for ice sheet, 641
Sheetwash, 331
Shields stress, 273, 336
Shock, 20, 228, 588, 677
Shock structure, 25, 232, 255, 402
for glacier surface waves, 735
Short wave approximation, 231
Side-branching, 371
Sierpinski gasket, 333
Silica, 539
Silt, 331, 387
Silver dichromate, 604, 829
Silver nitrate, 829
Similarity solution, 29, 404
delamination layer, 507
for ice beam, 769
Sine-Gordon equation, 58
Singular perturbation, 55, 144, 168, 189, 247,
255, 340, 354, 363, 370, 408, 491,
752, 766, 771, 784
Siple Coast, 624, 671, 682, 684
Skaergaard intrusion, 591, 604
Skeiðarárjökull, 742
Skin stress, 515
Slab stress, 510
Sliding law, 618, 655
Sliding velocity, 630, 634
Smectite, 436
Smith–Bretherton theory, 372
Snow avalanche, 599
Snow melting, 401
Snowball Earth, 108, 121, 618
Soil, 387
Solid angle, 66
Solid solution, 546, 551
Solitary waves, 45
Solitons, 28, 54
Solubility, 115
Solubility limit, 439
Solvability condition, 485
Solvus, 547
Sparks, Steve, 603
Specific heat, 819
Specific surface area, 437
Spherical polar coordinates, 148
Spherical trigonometry, 195
Spinel, 530
St. Alban’s, 432, 451
St. Venant equations, 230, 334
Stagnant lid, 502
Stefan condition, 568
Stefan number, 155, 587, 602
Stefan problem, 585
Stefan–Boltzmann constant, 66
Stefan’s law, 145
Stokes equations, 650
Stokes lines, 351, 810
Stokes settling velocity, 275
Stommel box model, 104, 120
Strained coordinates, method of, 209, 675, 718
Stratopause, 76
Stratosphere, 75
Stream power, 701
Stress corrosion, 576
Stress intensity factor, 575
Strombolian burp, 598
Strong seal, 754
Strouhal number, 198
Sturm–Liouville form, 732
Sub-characteristics, 6, 247
Sub-temperate sliding, 634
Subcritical crack propagation, 576
Subcritical flow, 265
Subduction, 468, 517, 519, 528
partial melting, 542
Subglacial floods, 101
Subglacial hydrology, 618
Sublimation, 706
Sulphate, 432
Summation convention, 627
Supercritical flow, 265
Superplumes, 531, 599
Supersaturation, 830
Surface energy, 826, 828
Surface roughness layer, 296
Surface tension, 32, 826
Surface waves, 618