Some comments on glacier surges in eastern Svalbard

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Schytt, V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1969
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Nordaustlandet; Austfonna; New Glacier; South Ice; Bråsvellbreen; glacier; Ice Sheet; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e69-088; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e69-088

Between 1936 and 1938 a great amount of ice flowed out from Sörfonna (the South Ice) on the south coast of Nordaustlandet. What had been an even slope of the ice sheet in 1936 developed into a badly crevassed glacier tongue by 1938, pushing approximately 20 km out to the sea along a front of 30 km....