Iceberg jam floods in Icelandic proglacial rivers: testing the self-organized criticality hypothesis

• Published in: Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement
• Main Authors: Roussel, Erwan, Toumazet, Jean-Pierre, Marren, Philip M., Cossart, Étienne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Groupe français de géomorphologie 2016
• Subjects: cours d’eau proglaciaires; lacs proglaciaires; crues de barrage glaciels; criticalité auto-organisée; Islande; proglacial rivers; proglacial lakes; iceberg jam floods; self-organized criticality; Iceland; geo; envir; Vatnajökull
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/geomorphologie/11229

In this paper, we describe a fluvial marginal process associated with the formation of iceberg jams in Icelandic proglacial lakes. The floods triggered by the release of these iceberg jams have implications for the geomorphic evolution of the proglacial fluvial system. The process of iceberg jam flo...