Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
The Holocene
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Krüger, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
GeoRef
Right arrow GeoRef Citation
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Origin, chronology and climatological significance of annual-moraine ridges at Myrdalsjökull, Iceland

Johannes Krüger

Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K., Denmark

Minor, transverse moraine ridges have formed annually at the retreating north margin of Myrdalsjökull, 550-600 m a.s.l., in south Iceland during the period 1928-1981. They are composed of slabs of clast-paved lodgement till and their formation at the glacier edge results from subglacial freezing-on of sediment slabs during winter and the annual cycle of ice-front activity. This type of annual-moraine ridge is likely to be characteristic of retreating temperate glaciers where the glacier toe is thin and winters are cold. The speed of glacier retreat is finely balanced with changes in mean summer temperature suggesting that the short-term ice-front fluctuations are climatically induced and not a result of surge activity.

Key Words: Annual moraines • moraine-ridge formation • glacier variations • climatic variations • Iceland.

The Holocene, Vol. 5, No. 4, 420-427 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/095968369500500404
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 The HoloceneHome page
S. Lukas
Early-Holocene glacier fluctuations in Krundalen, south central Norway: palaeoglacier dynamics and palaeoclimate
The Holocene, July 1, 2007; 17(5): 585 - 598.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 The HoloceneHome page
J. Kruger and K. H. Kjaer
De-icing progression of ice-cored moraines in a humid, subpolar climate, Kotlujokull, Iceland
The Holocene, September 1, 2000; 10(6): 737 - 747.
[Abstract] [PDF]