Source and dispersal of jökulhlaup sediments discharged to the sea following the 1996 Vatnajökull eruption

• Main Authors: Maria, A., Carey, S., Sigurdsson, H., Kincaid, C., Helgadóttir, G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@URI 2000
• Subjects: Glacier outburst floods; Grímsvötn; Iceland; Jükulhlaups; Marine sedimentation; Vatnajökull; Katla; glacier
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/gsofacpubs/1060; https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2000)112<1507:SADOJK>2.0.CO;2

The October 1996 Gjálp eruption beneath Vatnajökull glacier led to one of the largest jökulhlaups (glacial floods) in Iceland in the twentieth century. A catastrophic discharge of meltwater and sediment swept across the Skeidarársandur flood plain to the sea. Tephra from the eruption consists of ves...