Origin and significance of dispersed facies basal ice: Svínafellsjökull, Iceland

• Main Authors: Simon J. Cook, Darrel A. Swift, David Graham, Nicholas G. Midgley
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified; untagged; Svínafellsjökull; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Origin_and_significance_of_dispersed_facies_basal_ice_Sv_nafellsj_kull_Iceland/9481457

Dispersed facies basal ice – massive (i.e. structureless) ice with dispersed debris aggregates – is present at the margins of many glaciers and, as a product of internal glacial processes, has the potential to provide important information about the mechanisms of glacier flow and the nature of the s...