Temperate, glaciated continental shelves are by nature complex basins in that they not only have typical low-latitude siliciclastic processes acting to produce a sedimentary record and depositional architecture, but they also have the consequences of glacial action superimposed. For these settings glacial systems tracts are defined and related to glacial advance and retreat signatures, which can then be evaluated relative to changes in other external forces. We define glacial maximum (GMaST), retreat (GRST), minimum (GMiST) and advance (GAST) systems tracts separated by bounding discon-formities, which are respectively, the grounding-line retreat surface (GRS), the maximum (glacial) retreat surface (MRS) and the glacial advance surface (GAS). Each glacial advance and retreat sequence is bounded by a regionally significant unconformity, a glacial erosion surface (GES), or its equivalent conformity. Parasequence motifs vary across the shelf but include facies dominated by the movement of grounding lines. Facies motifs may have subglacial till above a GES and this is the main facies of the GMaST; however, tills are commonly absent. Although diamictic debrites are often associated with groundingline deposystems, the GRST succession is dominated by sorted deposits of gravel, rubble and poorly sorted sands due to the dominance of glacial meltwater. These deposits commonly have the geometry of banks or wedges/fans. They form the offlap-break at the outer continental shelf and also form a retrogradational stacking of bank systems on the shelf. Banks are capped by glacimarine rhythmites including thin debrites, turbidites, cyclopsams and cyclopels and perhaps iceberg-rafted varvites in fan to sheet-like geometries. Above these are draped sheets of bergstone muds that grade into paraglacial muds. The GMiST occurs with glacial retreat onto land or into fjords. The GMiST is represented in nearshore areas by progradational deposits of paralic systems dominated by deltaic and siliciclastic shelf systems, and in offshore areas by condensed sections. The GAST is represented by the inverse of the GRST facies succession, but is also the most likely interval to be eroded during readvance.

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Abstract. We consider two mod-p central series of the free group given by Stallings and Zassenhaus. Applying these series to definitions of Dennis Johnson's filtration of the mapping class group we obtain two mod-p Johnson filtrations. Further, we adapt the definition of the Johnson homomorphisms to obtain mod-p Johnson homomorphisms.We calculate the image of the first of these homomorphisms. We give generators for the kernels of these homomorphisms as well. We restrict the range of our mod-p Johnson homomorphisms using work of Morita. We finally prove the announced result of Perron that a rational homology 3-sphere may be given as a Heegaard splitting with gluing map coming from certain members of our mod-p Johnson filtrations.

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