Screen LibraryThe My rdalsjo kull Ice Cap, Iceland : glacial processes, sediments and landforms on an active volcano /
Existing lowland ice caps are usually considered the best analogues for formerly glaciated areas and as such Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. Much work has been directed towards understanding the interaction...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Developments in Quaternary sciences,
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/15710866/13 |
| Summary: |
Existing lowland ice caps are usually considered the best analogues for formerly glaciated areas and as such Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. Much work has been directed towards understanding the interaction between volcanic activity and glacier response i.e. water outbursts - jo kulhlaups and sudden events of rapid flowing glacier ice, i.e. surges. The My rdalsjo kull ice cap has served as an excellent 'ice-age' laboratory and publications are found in all major peer-reviewed journals. The My rdalsjo kull ice cap is located in south central Iceland and covers some 600 km2 and is centered over a large caldera hosting the Katla central volcano that encircles an area of 100 km2. Eruptions from the Katla volcanic system occur on average twice a century and belong to the most violent geological events observed associated with an enormous outburst of water with strong influence on the ice cap and surrounding areas. During eruptions, huge quantities of tephra and volcanic gasses are also emitted. The ice cap drains into several basins via a series of outlet glaciers that terminate onto different forefields. Since the turn of the previous century My rdalsjo kull has retreated from its Little Ice Age maximum by frontal or areal retreat only punctuated by abrupt minor advances or temporary stagnation. Either way this does provide a unique opportunity to investigate a diversity of glacial environments and its coupling to volcanic activity. Book covers all aspects of the ice cap and volcano dynamics Comprehensive reviews with updated results Editors and authors are well established scientists with research experience from My rdalsjo kull Standard reference work for My rdalsjo kull. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vii, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780444530455 0444530452 9780080932002 0080932002 |
| Index Number: | GB2514 |
| CLC: | P317 |
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Katla and Eyjafjallajo kull volcanoes / Katla : tephrochronology and eruption history / Deglaciation and Holocene glacial history of Iceland / Variations of My rdalsjo kull during postglacial and historical times / Ice-marginal environments : geomorphic and structural genesis of marginal moraines at My rdalsjo kull / Dead-ice environments : a landsystems model for a debris-charged, stagnant lowland glacier margin, Ko tlujo kull / Subglacial environments, sediments and landforms at the margins of My rdalsjo kull / Evidence for subglacial deformation and deposition during a complete advance-stagnation cycle of Kotlujo kull, Iceland : a case study / My rdalsjo kull's forefields under the microscope : the micromorphology of meltout and subglacial tills / Volcanogenic jo kulhlaups (glacier outburst floods) from My rdalsjo kull : impacts on proglacial environments / |