Architecture and structural evolution of an early Little Ice Age terminal moraine at the surge-type glacier Múlajökull, Iceland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1895-1910

  Benediktsson, Ívar Örn ^a   Schomacker, Anders ^b,c   Johnson, Mark D ^d   Geiger, Alessa J ^e   Ingõlfsson, Ólafur ^f,g   Guomundsdõttir, Esther Ruth ^g  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

folding and thrusting; glaciotectonic; horizontal shortening; moraine; M laj kull; surge type glacier

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FOLDING; GLACIER SURGE; GLACIOTECTONICS; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

ICELAND;

EID: 84944688604     PISSN: 21699003     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JF003514     Document Type: Article

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