Investigating effects of climate change on glaciers and proglacial landscapes in southeast Iceland: Fluvioglacial Behavior of Sólheimajökull and Seljavallajökull

• Main Author: Miller, Roberta B.C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SIT Digital Collections 2016
• Subjects: Environmental Health; Environmental Studies; Geographic Information Sciences; Geography; Physical and Environmental Geography; Scandinavian Studies; Mýrdalsjökull; Sólheimajökull; Eyjafjallajökull; glacier; Ice cap; Iceland
• Online Access: https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2453; https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/context/isp_collection/article/3475/viewcontent/Miller_ISPpaper.pdf

The Seljavallajökull glacier, part of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier system, and Sólheimajökull, part of the Mýrdalsjökull glacier system, are two glaciers that extend into valleys in the southeast part of Iceland. Due to climate warming, both of these glaciers are part of a melting ice cap. They are...