Mýrdalsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland Glacial processes, sediments and landforms on an active volcano / edited by Anders Schomacker, Johannes Krüger and Kurt H. Kjær.

• 1 The Mýrdalsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland: Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano: An Introduction / Johannes Krüger, Anders Schomacker, Kurt H. Kjær -- 2 Katla and Eyjafjallajökull Volcanoes / Erik Sturkell, Páll Einarsson, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Andy Hooper, Benedikt G. Ófeigsson, Halldór Geirsson, Halldór Ólafsson -- 3 Katla: Tephrochronology and Eruption History / Guðrún Larsen -- 4 Deglaciation and Holocene Glacial History of Iceland / Ólafur Ingólfsson, Hreggviður Norðdahl, Anders Schomacker -- 5 Variations of Mýrdalsjökull during Postglacial and Historical Times / Oddur Sigurðsson -- 6 Ice-Marginal Environments: Geomorphic and Structural Genesis of Marginal Moraines at Mýrdalsjökull / Johannes Krüger, Anders Schomacker, Ívar Örn Benediktsson -- 7 Dead-Ice Environments: A Landsystems Model for a Debris-Charged, Stagnant Lowland Glacier Margin, Kötlujökull / Johannes Krüger, Kurt H. Kjær, Anders Schomacker -- 8 Subglacial Environments, Sediments and Landforms at the Margins of Mýrdalsjökull / Anders Schomacker, Kurt H. Kjær, Johannes Krüger -- 9 Evidence for Subglacial Deformation and Deposition during a Complete Advance-Stagnation Cycle of Kötlujökull, Iceland: A Case Study / Knud Erik S. Klint, Niels Richardt, Johannes Krüger -- 10 Mýrdalsjökull's Forefields Under the Microscope. The Micromorphology of Meltout and Subglacial Tills / Jaap J.M. van der Meer, Simon J. Carr, Kurt H. Kjær -- 11 Volcanogenic Jökulhlaups (Glacier Outburst Floods) from Mýrdalsjökull: Impacts on Proglacial Environments / Andrew J. Russell, Robert Duller, Nigel P. Mountney. 

• 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.

Ämnesord

Glaciology  (LCSH)

Ice caps  -- Iceland (LCSH)

Volcanoes  -- Iceland (LCSH)

Sedimentation and deposition  -- Iceland (LCSH)

Katla (Iceland)  (LCSH)

Mýrdalsjökull (Iceland)  (LCSH)

Publikations- och innehållstyp

551.31094912 (DDC)

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