Holocene jökulhlaups, glacier fluctuations and palaeoenvironment, Mýrdalsjökull, South Iceland

This thesis develops a chronology of jökulhlaup (glacier burst flood) activity from Mýrdalsjökull in southern Iceland. New geornorphological, sedimentological and tephrochronological data has identified 15 flow events during the Holocene. The majority of these were hyperconcentrated flow events orig...

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Main Author: Smith, Kate T.
Published: University of Edinburgh 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.662100