The Glaciers of Iceland: A Historical, Cultural and Scientific OverviewSpringer, 4. okt. 2016 - 613 síður This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with the world of nature, the perceptions of art and culture with the systematic and pragmatic analyses of science, The Glaciers of Iceland present a wide spectrum of readers with a new and stimulating view of the origins, development and possible future of these massive natural phenomena, as well as the study and role of glaciology, within specific time lines and geographical locations. Icelandic glaciers the author argues could prove essential for understanding the current unsettling progress of global warming. The glaciers of Iceland, therefore, aims at presenting to a wide readership an original, historical, cultural and scientific overview of these geophysical features in Iceland while also suggesting increasingly important lessons and models for man's future interaction with the world's glaciers as a whole. |
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2 Reading the Landscape | 38 |
3 Iceland | 103 |
4 History of Glaciology in Iceland | 128 |
The Glaciers of Iceland | 208 |
5 Glaciers of Southern Iceland | 209 |
6 Glaciers of the Central Highlands | 275 |
7 Glaciers of Northern and Western Iceland | 337 |
Surface Area km2 of Individual Outlet Glaciers of Vatnajökull Langjökull Hofsjökull and Mýrdalsjökull | 588 |
ComputerGenerated Image of Subglacial Base of Vatnajökull | 591 |
Katla Jökulhlaups since Settlement of Iceland | 592 |
ComputerGenerated Image of Subglacial Base of Mýrdalsjökull | 593 |
Jökulhlaups from EystriSkaftárketill ice cauldron Vatnajökull | 594 |
Jökulhlaups from VestariSkaftárketill Ice Cauldron Vatnajökull | 595 |
ComputerGenerated Image of Subglacial Base of Langjökull | 596 |
ComputerGenerated Image of Subglacial Base of Hofsjökull | 597 |
8 Vatnajökull and Glaciers of Eastern Iceland | 374 |
Overview of the History of Glaciers and Glaciology in Iceland | 575 |
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Surface Areas of Glaciers According to Land Maps Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images Until 2014 | 587 |
Recorded Volcanic Eruptions Beneath Vatnajökull | 598 |
Grímsvötn Surface Area and Volume of Grímsvötn and Grímsvötn jökulhlaups Thickness of Grímsvötn Ice Cover Water Levels Before and After Ou... | 601 |
Afterword | 604 |
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The Glaciers of Iceland: A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview Helgi Björnsson Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2016 |
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20th century ablation zone accumulation zone Atlantic Bárðarbunga beneath the glacier Björnsson Breiðamerkurjökull Brúarjökull caldera central highlands centre channels climate change covered crater crevasses descends Drangajökull Dyngjujökull Earth east eastern Einarsson expedition Eyjafjallajökull farmsteads fissure fjords geologist geothermal glacial rivers glacier’s surface glaciers in Iceland Glaciers of Iceland Glaciology Grímsvötn Guðmundsson height Hofsjökull Hornafjörður Hvítárvatn Ice Age ice cap ice flow ice sheet ice-age glacier Island Jóhannesson jökulhlaups Jökull Jökulsá á Fjöllum Jón Jónsson Katla Kverkfjöll Kverkfjöll mountains lake land Langjökull last glacial period lava field layers lowlands magma Magnússon mass balance melting meltwater moraines Mýrdalsjökull northern ocean Öræfajökull Öræfi outburst floods outlet glaciers palagonite peaks reached Reykjavík ridge sea level sediment settlement Sigurðsson Skaftá Skaftafell Skeiðará Skeiðarárjökull Skeiðarársandur Snæfellsjökull snout snow snowline southern subglacial summer surge Sveinn Pálsson temperature thick Thoroddsen travelled Tungnaá valley Vatnajökull vegetation volcanic eruptions western Þórarinsson