TY - JOUR
T1 - Subglacial decoupling at the sediment/bedrock interface
T2 - a new mechanism for rapid flowing ice
AU - Kjær, Kurt H.
AU - Larsen, Eiliv
AU - van der Meer, Jaap
AU - Ingólfsson, Ólafur
AU - Krüger, Johannes
AU - Örn Benediktsson, Ívar
AU - Knudsen, Carita G.
AU - Schomacker, Anders
N1 - Funding Information: Financial support for this study was received from the Swedish National Research Council (Kurt H. Kjær, contract no. 621-2002-4753), The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Crafoord Foundation, Landsvirkjun, the University of Iceland Research Fund, Icelandic Research Council (Rannís) and the Danish Natural Research Council.
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - On millennial or even centennial time scales, the activity of rapid flowing ice can affect climate variability and global sea level through release of meltwater into the ocean and positive feedback loops to the climate system. At the surge-type glacier Brúarjökull, an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap, eastern Iceland, extremely rapid ice flow was sustained by overpressurized water causing decoupling beneath a thick sediment sequence that was coupled to the glacier. This newly discovered mechanism has far reaching consequences for our understanding of fast-flowing ice and its integration with sediment discharge and meltwater release.
AB - On millennial or even centennial time scales, the activity of rapid flowing ice can affect climate variability and global sea level through release of meltwater into the ocean and positive feedback loops to the climate system. At the surge-type glacier Brúarjökull, an outlet of the Vatnajökull ice cap, eastern Iceland, extremely rapid ice flow was sustained by overpressurized water causing decoupling beneath a thick sediment sequence that was coupled to the glacier. This newly discovered mechanism has far reaching consequences for our understanding of fast-flowing ice and its integration with sediment discharge and meltwater release.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33751232307
U2 - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.06.010
DO - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.06.010
M3 - Article
SN - 0277-3791
VL - 25
SP - 2704
EP - 2712
JO - Quaternary Science Reviews
JF - Quaternary Science Reviews
IS - 21-22
ER -