The characteristics and formation of a high-arctic proglacial icing

• Main Authors: Richard Hodgkins, Martyn Tranter, Julian A. Dowdeswell
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Earth Sciences not elsewhere classified; Proglacial; Icing; Aufeis; Naled; Hydraulic conductivity; Arctic; Scott Turnerbreen; Svalbard; Arctic Archipelago; glacier; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/The_characteristics_and_formation_of_a_high-arctic_proglacial_icing/9485006

Well-known from permafrost hydrology, icings (naled or Aufeis) are also frequently encountered at the margins of high-latitude glaciers. The morphology of a proglacial icing at Scott Turnerbreen in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is described, and the process of formation is considered...