A Boulder Beach Formed by Waves From a Calving Glacier Revisited: Multidecadal Tsunami–Controlled Coastal Changes in Front of Eqip Sermia, West Greenland

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Authors: Kostrzewa, Oskar, Szczypińska, Małgorzata, Kavan, Jan, Senderak, Krzysztof, Novák, Milan, Strzelecki, Mateusz C.
• Other Authors: Narodowe Centrum Nauki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Eqip Sermia; Greenland; glacier; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2235; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.2235

ABSTRACT The calving of glaciers regularly produces tsunami‐like waves that pose a serious threat to coastal environments. Those strong waves are not only able to move ice mélange and redistribute icebergs, growlers, or sea ice across a fjord but also flood and remodel neighbouring cliffs and beache...