Glacial geomorphology and Late Quaternary glacial History of Hornstrandir, NW Iceland

• Main Author: Hole, Ivar
• Other Authors: Schomacker, Anders, Brynjólfsson, Skafti, Håkansson, Lena
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: NTNU 2015
• Subjects: Geologi; Ingeniørgeologi - løsmasser; Hornstrandir; Saksunarvatn; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2350399

The Late Quaternary and Holocene glacial history of Hornstrandir, NW Iceland, have been investigated. The area is of special interest because it s almost unstudied. Several researchers have proposed that ice free plateaux and nunataks existed in Iceland during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Horn...