Outwash plain -Skeidararsandur
View to the NE across a portion of the Skeidararsandur, a broad outwash plain in south central Iceland. This small stream is cutting a channel into sand and gravel deposited during the 1996 jokulhlaup, a flood of meltwater generated by an eruption of Grimsvotn, a volcanic center beneath the Vatnajok...
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Oberlin College Library
1997
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Online Access: | http://server15963.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p15963coll1,1896 |
Summary: | View to the NE across a portion of the Skeidararsandur, a broad outwash plain in south central Iceland. This small stream is cutting a channel into sand and gravel deposited during the 1996 jokulhlaup, a flood of meltwater generated by an eruption of Grimsvotn, a volcanic center beneath the Vatnajokull ice cap. |
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