Origin, chronology and climatological significance of annual-moraine ridges at Myrdalsjökull, Iceland

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Author: Krüger, Johannes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1995
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Moraine Ridge; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968369500500404; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968369500500404

Minor, transverse moraine ridges have formed annually at the retreating north margin of Myrdalsjökull, 550-600 m a.s.l., in south Iceland during the period 1928-1981. They are composed of slabs of clast-paved lodgement till and their formation at the glacier edge results from subglacial freezing-on...