The Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap, Iceland

Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano Volume 13
Ed. by Anders Schomacker, Johannes Krüger and Kurt Kjaer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lowland glaciers are usually considered the best analogs for formerly glaciated areas and as such, many Icelandic glaciers have been intensively investigated with regard to process-orientated sediment-landform interrelationships. The Mýrdalsjökull ice cap has, thus, served as an excellent "ice-age laboratory." Furthermore, a substantial effort has been directed toward understanding the interaction between volcanic activity and glacier response, such as meltwater outbursts (jökulhlaups) and sudden events of rapidly flowing glacier ice. The book reviews the following themes related to Mýrdalsjökull: glaciology, glacial and quaternary geology, sedimentology, tephrochronology and eruption history of Katla, and crustal movements. All authors are involved in research about the subglacial Katla volcano and Mýrdalsjökull.

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Produktdetails

• Developments in Quaternary Science Volume 13
• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2009-0-17186-6
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 211mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 876g
• ISBN-13: 9780444530455
• ISBN-10: 0444530452
• Artikelnr.: 27353169

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Mýrdalsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland. Glacial processes, sediments and landforms on an active volcano - an introduction (J. Krüger, A. Schomacker and K.H. Kjær). 2. Katla and Eyjafjallajökull volcanoes (E. Sturkell, P. Einarsson, F. Sigmundsson, A. Hooper, B.G. Ófeigsson, H. Geirsson and H. Ólafsson). 3. Katla - tephrochronology and eruption history (G. Larsen). 4. Deglaciation and Holocene glacial history of Iceland (Ó. Ingólfsson, H. Norðdahl and A. Schomacker). 5. Variations of Mýrdalsjökull during postglacial and historical times (O. Sigurðsson). 6. Ice-marginal environments: geomorphic and structural genesis of marginal moraines at Mýrdalsjökull (J. Krüger, A. Schomacker and Í.Ö. Benediktsson). 7. Dead-ice environments: a landsystems model for a debris-charged, stagnant lowland glacier margin, Kötlujökull (J. Krüger, K.H. Kjær and A. Schomacker). 8. Subglacial environments, sediments and landforms at the margins of Mýrdalsjökull (A. Schomacker, K.H. Kjær and J. Krüger). 9. Evidence for subglacial deformation and deposition during a complete advance-stagnation cycle of Kötlujökull, Iceland - a case study (K.E.S. Klint, N. Richardt and J. Krüger). 10. Mýrdalsjökull's forefields under the microscope. The micromorphology of meltout and subglacial tills (J.J.M. van der Meer, S.J. Carr and K.H. Kjær). 11. Volcanogenic jökulhlaups (glacier outburst floods) from Mýrdalsjökull: impacts on proglacial environments (A.J. Russell, R. Duller and N.P. Mountney)