Post Little Ice Age changes in the Morsárjökull and Skaftafellsjökull proglacial landscape (Southeast of Iceland)

• Main Authors: Roussel, Erwan, Chenet, Marie, Decaulne, Armelle
• Other Authors: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Clermont-Ferrand (MSH Clermont), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale (GEOLAB), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IR SHS UNILIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université Clermont Auvergne 2017-2020 (UCA 2017-2020 )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: Post Little Ice Age; Sandur; Glacier Retreat; Slopes; [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology; Morsárjökull; Skaftafell; Skaftafellsjökull; Vatnajökull; Arctic; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00466850

International audience The Global Warming which started since the end of the Little Ice Age (mid-19th Century in Iceland), leads to the retreat of glacier fronts. Thus, the terminus of the Morsárjökull and Skaftafellsjökull glaciers, outlets of the Vatnajökull ice cap, have receded about 1 to 1.5 km since the LIA. This retreat induces new dynamics in the glacier foreland, especially related to glacial meltwater and recent deglaciated slopes development. Lichenometric measures on moraine ridges and paleosandurs provide the opportunity to reconstruct the evolution of the Morsárjökull and the Skaftafellsjökull the proglacial areas.