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...