Articles | Volume 73, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-159-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-73-159-2024
Preface
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22 Aug 2024
Preface |  | 22 Aug 2024

Preface: Subglacial erosional landforms and their relevance for the long-term safety of a radioactive waste repository

Jörg Lang, Anke Bebiolka, Sonja Breuer, and Maximilian Pfaff

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The past is the key to the future – considering Pleistocene subglacial erosion for the minimum depth of a radioactive waste repository
Sonja Breuer, Anke Bebiolka, Vera Noack, and Jörg Lang
E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 113–125, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-113-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-113-2023, 2023
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Breuer, S., Bebiolka, A., Noack, V., and Lang, J.: The past is the key to the future – considering Pleistocene subglacial erosion for the minimum depth of a radioactive waste repository, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 113–125, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-113-2023, 2023.​​​​​​​ 
Cohen, D., Jouvet, G., Zwinger, T., Landgraf, A., and Fischer, U. H.: Subglacial hydrology from high-resolution ice-flow simulations of the Rhine Glacier during the Last Glacial Maximum: a proxy for glacial erosion, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 189–201, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-189-2023, 2023. 
Gegg, L. and Preusser, F.: Comparison of overdeepened structures in formerly glaciated areas of the northern Alpine foreland and northern central Europe, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 23–36, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-23-2023, 2023. 
Lohrberg, A., Schneider von Deimling, J., Grob, H., Lenz, K.-F., and Krastel, S.: Tunnel valleys in the southeastern North Sea: more data, more complexity, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 267–274, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-267-2022, 2022. 
Müller, P., Hoyer, E.-M., Bartetzko, A., and Rühaak, W.: Expected and deviating evolutions in representative preliminary safety assessments – a focus on glacial tunnel valleys, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 73–76, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-73-2023, 2023. 
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The formation of tunnel valleys and other subglacial erosional landforms is among the deepest-reaching erosional processes. Such deep erosion during potential future ice ages could seriously affect the integrity of the geological barrier of a radioactive waste repository. This special issue aims to collect studies on all aspects of subglacial erosion and its treatment with regard to site selection and the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories.