Paraglacial exposure and collapse of glacial sediment: The 2013 landslide onto Svínafellsjökull, southeast Iceland

• Published in: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
• Main Authors: Ben‐Yehoshua, Daniel, Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn, Helgason, Jón Kristinn, Belart, Joaquin M. C., Sigurðsson, Jón Viðar, Erlingsson, Sigurður
• Other Authors: Icelandic Centre for Research, Landsvirkjun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5398; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/esp.5398; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/esp.5398

Abstract In the last 130 years, Icelandic glaciers have experienced significant mass loss, and numerous paraglacial slope failures have been documented in the country. One such failure occurred in late February 2013, when a large landslide fell onto the Svínafellsjökull outlet glacier in southeast I...