Breiðamerkurjökull
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| location | Iceland | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 9 ′ N , 16 ° 24 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Breiðárlón , Jökulsárlón | |
The Breiðamerkurjökull is a great glacier of Vatnajökull in southeast Iceland .
Towards the end of the 19th century the glacier tongue reached almost to the sea, now it is more than 3 km away from the coast. Lakes such as the Breiðárlón and the famous Jökulsárlón have formed on the edge of the glacier .
See also
Web links
Commons : Breiðamerkurjökull - collection of images, videos and audio files
Scientific contributions
- David JA Evans; David R. Twigg: The active temperate glacial landsystem: a model based on Breiðamerkurjökull and Fjallsjökull, Iceland doi : 10.1016 / S0277-3791 (02) 00019-7 (English)
- Michaël Denis; Jean-François Buoncristiani: Fluid-pressure controlled soft-bed deformation sequence beneath the surging Breiðamerkurjökull (Iceland, Little Ice Age) doi : 10.1016 / j.sedgeo.2009.07.013 (English)
- A. Schomaker: Expansion of ice-marginal lakes at Vatnajökull ice-cap, Iceland, from 1999 - 2009. Geomorphology , Vol. 119, Is. 3-4, 1 July 2010, p. 232-36. doi : 10.1016 / j.geomorph.2010.03.022 (English)