Supraglacial Re-Sedimentation from Melt-Water Streams on to Snow Overlying Glacier Ice, Sylgjujökull, West Vatnajökull, Iceland

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Author: Dowdeswell, Julian A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1982
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Vatnajökull; glacier; Iceland; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000011709; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000011709

Abstract Sediment deposition on to snow overlying glacier ice occurs in a marginal zone extending 200–300 m up-glacier from the terminus of Sylgjujökull. Debris on ice above the marginal snow zone comes from debris-rich layers, and 85% of this debris falls between 1 and 4 ϕ , the characteristic grai...