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The relationship between supraglacial debris and meltwater streams on the Sylgjujökull outlet glacier, Vatnajökull, Iceland / Julian A. Dowdeswell.

Title: The relationship between supraglacial debris and meltwater streams on the Sylgjujökull outlet glacier, Vatnajökull, Iceland / Julian A. Dowdeswell.
Author(s): Dowdeswell, Julian A.
Date: 1980.
Abstract: Examines four themes relating to links between supraglacial debris and meltwater streams: origin and distribution of supraglacial debris, stressing importance of debris-rich layers as debris source and proposing model of supraglacial sediment distribution on quiescent stage surging glaciers (e.g. Sylgjujökull); stream initiation and debris entrainment, discussing channel initiation at transient snowline, influence of ice structures and annual/perennial nature of observed supraglacial streams; debris influence on stream morphometry, comparing streams with and without significant debris load; supraglacial resedimentation, examining "resedimented debris train" formation on drifted snow low on Sylgjujökull snout, and discussing process implications for dirt cone development.
Notes:

Undergraduate dissertation. Jesus College, Cambridge.

Keywords: 551.32 -- Glaciology.
551.324 -- Land ice.
551.324.24 -- Ice sheets and caps: Vatnajökull.
551.324.22 -- Glaciers: Sylgjujökull.
551.324.8 -- Land ice, structure and surface features.
551.324.433 -- Land ice, ablation and calving.
551.324.65 -- Land ice, surges and catastrophic changes.
551.324.83 -- Land ice, load.
551.324.86 -- Glacier streams.
551.324.88 -- Land ice, ablation phenomena.
551.578.46 -- Snow cover and snow patches.
551.578.466 -- Snow, surface forms and drifts.
551.324.435 -- Firn line.
043 -- Theses.
E5 -- Glaciology: land ice.
(*35) -- Iceland.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-THE: 1980[Dow]
SPRI record no.: 189918

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