Iceberg jam floods in Icelandic proglacial rivers: testing the self-organized criticality hypothesis

• Published in: Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement
• Main Authors: Roussel, Erwan, Toumazet, Jean-Pierre, Marren, Philip M., Cossart, Etienne
• Other Authors: University Clermont Auvergne; University Blaise Pascal; CNRS, University of Chester
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: GFG 2016
• Subjects: Proglacial rivers; Proglacial lakes; Iceland; Self organised criticality; Vatnajökull
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/605437; https://doi.org/10.4000/geomorphologie.11229

In this paper, we describe a fluvial marginal process associated with the formation of iceberg jams in Icelandic proglacial lakes. The floods triggered by the release of these iceberg jams have implications for the geomorphic evolution of the proglacial fluvial system. The process of iceberg jam flo...