Active drumlin field revealed at the margin of Múlajökull, Iceland: A surge-type glacier

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 943-946

  Johnson, Mark D ^a   Schomacker, Anders ^b,c   Benediktsson, Ívar Örn ^c   Geiger, Alessa J ^d   Ferguson, Amanda ^e   Ingólfsson, Ólafur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED DEFORMATION; EROSION SURFACES; EROSIONAL PROCESS; ICELANDS; PLEISTOCENE;

GLACIERS;

EROSION;

DRUMLIN; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER SURGE; SUBGLACIAL DEPOSIT; TILL;

HOFSJOKULL; ICELAND;

EID: 77958095297     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31371.1     Document Type: Article

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