Correlation of Late Quaternary moraines: impact of climate variability, glacier response, and chronological resolution

MP Kirkbride, S Winkler - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a global surge in the number and resolution of well-dated
geomorphological reconstructions of mountain glacier fluctuations and former ice sheet …

Characteristics of recessional moraines at a temperate glacier in SE Iceland: Insights into patterns, rates and drivers of glacier retreat

BMP Chandler, DJA Evans, DH Roberts - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Icelandic glaciers are sensitive to climate variability on short-term timescales owing to their
North Atlantic maritime setting, and have been undergoing ice-marginal retreat since the mid …

Glacial rebound and plate spreading: results from the first countrywide GPS observations in Iceland

T Árnadóttir, B Lund, W Jiang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Iceland is one of the few places on Earth where a divergent plate boundary can be observed
on land. Direct observations of crustal deformation for the whole country are available for the …

Conceptual models of 1200 years of Icelandic soil erosion reconstructed using tephrochronology

AJ Dugmore, G Gísladóttir, IA Simpson… - Journal of the North …, 2009 - BioOne
With reference to 18 tephra isochrones, we present six reconstructions of landscapes in
South Iceland at precise times through the last 1200 years and develop three related models …

[PDF][PDF] Late Weichselian and Holocene environmental history of Iceland

H Norðdahl, Ó Ingólfsson, HG Pétursson, M Hallsdóttir - Jökull, 2008 - researchgate.net
At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glaciers extended out towards the shelf break around
Iceland and ice thickness over most of Iceland was 2000 m. Rapidly rising global sea level …

Fláajökull (north lobe), Iceland: active temperate piedmont lobe glacial landsystem

DJA Evans, M Ewertowski, C Orton - Journal of Maps, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A 1: 6250 map of the foreland of Fláajökull's north lobe as it appeared in 1989,
together with a 1: 350 scale map of a sample area of recently exposed glacial landforms …

A review of lichenometric dating and its applications to archaeology

JB Benedict - American Antiquity, 2009 - cambridge.org
Lichenometry—a method developed by geologists for dating Holocene moraines and other
landforms—has many potential applications in archaeology. Maximum-diameter …

Glacier retreat and landform production on an overdeepened glacier foreland: the debris‐charged glacial landsystem at Kvíárjökull, Iceland

GL Bennett, DJA Evans - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Glacier recession and landform development in a debris‐charged glacial landsystem
characterized by an overdeepening is quantified using digital photogrammetry, digital …

Recent, very rapid retreat of a temperate glacier in SE I celand

T Bradwell, O Sigurđsson, J Everest - Boreas, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
I celand's glaciers are particularly sensitive to climate change, and their margins respond to
trends in air temperature. Most Icelandic glaciers have been in retreat since c. 1990, and …

Growth rates of Rhizocarpon geographicum lichens: a review with new data from Iceland

T Bradwell, RA Armstrong - Journal of Quaternary Science …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews evidence from previous growth‐rate studies on lichens of the yellow‐
green species of Subgenus Rhizocarpon—the family most commonly used in lichenometric …