Characterization of a glacial paleo-outburst flood using high-resolution 3-D seismic data: Bjørnelva River Valley, SW Barents Sea

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: B. Bellwald, S. Planke, S. Polteau, N. Lebedeva-Ivanova, J.I. Faleide, S.M. Morris, S. Morse, S. Castelltort
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Subjects: Arctic glaciology; climate change; fluvial transport; glacier hydrology; Jökulhlaups (GLOFs); Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Antarctic; Arctic; Barents Sea; Glacial Lake; Greenland; Antarc*; Climate change; glacier; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.115; https://doaj.org/article/a70cb099c1224eb396559458aa93bba6

Proglacial braided river systems discharge large volumes of meltwater from ice sheets and transport coarse-grained sediments from the glaciated areas to the oceans. Here, we test the hypothesis if high-energy hydrological events can leave distinctive signatures in the sedimentary record of braided r...