Breaking the seal at GriITlsvotn, Iceland

ABSTRACT. Of several problems associated with theoretical explanations of the jokulhlaups which emerge from the outlet glacier Skeioararjokull of the ice cap Vatnajokull in southeast Iceland, the mechanism of flood initiation is one that has hitherto defied explanation. We provide such an explanatio...

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Main Author: A. C. Fowler
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.190.6288
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/%7Efowler/papers/1999.4.pdf