On a Remarkable Glacier-Lake, formed by a Branch of the Hardanger-Jökul, near Eidflörd, Norway

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Author: Munro, Robert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1895
• Subjects: General Engineering; Norway; glacier
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600048392; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0370164600048392

Lakes whose causal conditions are due to the direct interposition of glaciers, may be formed in one or other of the two following ways. First, when a glacier descending a lateral valley protrudes so far as to dam up a river in the main valley, the obstructing element being either the actual ice or the morainic débris deposited from it. Or, secondly, when a glacier occupying a main valley blocks up the outlet of some tributary stream. In both instances the water accumulates behind the obstruction and so forms a lake, varying in size according to the height of the barrier and the surface configuration of the district immediately above it.