Tab. 1: Rates of advance of the frontal push-moraines of 19 lobes in front of an approx. 4.5 km long margin of the Kötlujökull

• Main Author: Heim, Dieter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1984
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; Date/time end; Kötlujökull; Myrdalsjökull; southern Iceland; OBSE; Observation; Speed; Sickle; The Backslope; glacier; ice core; Iceland; Polarforschung
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.761446; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.761446

In the last years masses of ice, about 5 km long, have been protruding from the lowest part of an advancing glacier margin of the Kötlujökull in Southern Iceland. In the summer of 1983, they appeared as sediment-covered lobes, 10-60 m long, bordering the glacier rnargin like agarland. 1 to 3 push-rn...