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Surging glacier landsystem of Tungnaárjökull, Iceland

Evans, D.J.A.; Twigg, D.R.; Rea, B.R.; Orton, C.

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Authors

D.R. Twigg

B.R. Rea

C. Orton



Abstract

A 1:30,000 scale map of the snout and proglacial landscape of the surging Icelandic glacier Tungnaarjokull, based upon aerial photography from 1995, immediately after a surge, allows an assessment of the spatial variability in landform-sediment imprints of catastrophic glacier advance across upland bedrock ridges. The ice-margin parallel alignment of the bedrock ridges locally strongly directs proglacial meltwater drainage and initiates strong compression in the ice during surging, resulting in the development of prominent ice-cored hummocky moraine composed of glacifluvial sediment. Diagnostic surge landforms elsewhere on the foreland include thrust block and push moraines, overridden ice-cored thrust block moraines, crevasse squeeze ridges, long flutings, hummocky moraine and ice-cored, pitted outwash.

Citation

Evans, D., Twigg, D., Rea, B., & Orton, C. (2009). Surging glacier landsystem of Tungnaárjökull, Iceland. Journal of Maps, 2009, 134-151. https://doi.org/10.4113/jom.2009.1064

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2009
Deposit Date May 21, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Maps
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2009
Pages 134-151
DOI https://doi.org/10.4113/jom.2009.1064

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