Processus et rythmes de l’incision des sandar proximaux postérieure au petit âge glaciaire (sud de l’Islande)

• Published in: Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement
• Main Authors: Roussel, Erwan, Chenet, Marie, Grancher, Delphine, Jomelli, Vincent
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Groupe français de géomorphologie 2009
• Subjects: ajustement fluvial; Islande; lichénométrie; paraglaciaire; petit âge glaciaire; recul glaciaire; sandur; fluvial adjustment; glacial retreat; Iceland; lichenometry; little ice age; paraglacial; geo; envir; Sandar; glacier
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/geomorphologie.7416; http://journals.openedition.org/geomorphologie/7416

Since the end of the Little Ice Age, glacial outlets of southern Iceland have undergone a substantial retreat, which has modified hydrological and sedimentological settings and caused fluvial adjustments. Based on lichenometric dating and topographical measurements, this study demonstrates that prox...