Glacier dynamics at Skalafellsjokull, Iceland

Jane Hart, Kirk Martinez
2016
Glacier dynamics at Skalafellsjokull, Iceland
This is a Full Scientific Report resulting from NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility Loan 983, principal investigator Prof Jane Hart.

Abstract

We have used the innovative wireless Glacsweb probes, dGPS and ground penetrating radar (GPR) to understand the glacier dynamics at Skalafellsjökull, Iceland. The aim of this is to understand how glaciers move and how they respond to climate change. The study was undertaken at Skalafellsjökull, Iceland (Figure 1). This is an outlet glacier of the Vatnajökull icecap resting on Upper Tertiary grey basalts with intercalated sediments (Jóhannesson and Sæmundsson, 1998). The dGPS have been located at the main study site since August 2012, the GPR study took place in the Eastern study area close to the Sultartungnajökull outlet in 2013.

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Hart, J., Martinez, K., "Glacier dynamics at Skalafellsjokull, Iceland", NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility, Scientific Report 983, 2016

Selected external publications resulting from this GEF loan

  1. Hart, J.K., Clayton, A.I., Martinez, K. and Robson, B.A., 2018, Erosional and depositional subglacial streamlining processes at Skalafellsjokull, Iceland: an analogue for a new bedform continuum model, GFF, 140(2), p153-169, doi: 10.1080/11035897.2018.1477830
  2. Hart, J.K., Martinez, K., Basford, P.J., Clayton, A.I., Bragg, G.M., Ward, T. and Young, D.S., 2019, Surface melt‐driven seasonal behaviour (englacial and subglacial) from a soft‐bedded temperate glacier recorded by in situ wireless probes, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4611
  3. Hart, J.K., Martinez, K., Basford, P.J., Clayton, A.I., Robson, B.A. and Young, D.S., 2019, Surface melt driven summer diurnal and winter multi-day stick-slip motion and till sedimentology, Nature Communications, 10(1), doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09547-6
  4. Hart, J.K., 2017, Subglacial till formation: Microscale processes within the subglacial shear zone, Quaternary Science Reviews, 170, p26-44, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.021
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