The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overvi
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 o
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Helgi Björnsson
The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science Volume 2
Series editor Colm O’Cofaigh, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK
The aim of the Atlantis book series ‘Advances in Quaternary Science’ is to bring together texts in the broad field of Quaternary Science that highlight recent research advances on aspects of glaciation and sea level change, the development and application of Quaternary geochronological methods, records of climate change from marine and terrestrial settings, geomorphology and landscape evolution and regionally-focused reviews of Quaternary environmental change. The series comprises monographs and edited volumes that require extensive illustration and substantial space, and which provide state of the art thematic and regional reviews on Quaternary related topics often focusing on processes and associated responses within the fields of geology, geomorphology, glaciology, geochronology and palaeo-biology. In the last two decades technological developments in dating methods, remote sensing and techniques for the analysis and interpretation of sedimentary and climatic archives have resulted in significant advances of climate and ocean change across a range of time-scales from annual to millennial. Publications in the Atlantis book series ‘Advances in Quaternary Science’ capture these developments and show how they have increased understanding of Pleistocene to Holocene climate, cryosphere and ocean change across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15358
Helgi Björnsson
The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview Julian Meldon D’Arcy, University of Iceland: English translation
Helgi Björnsson School of Engineering and Natural Science, Institute of Earth Sciences University of Iceland Reykjavík Iceland
Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science ISBN 978-94-6239-206-9 ISBN 978-94-6239-207-6 DOI 10.2991/978-94-6239-207-6
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947792 © Atlantis Press and the author(s) 2017 This book, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced for commercial purposes in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system known or to be invented, without prior permission from the Publisher. Printed on acid-free paper
The publication of this book was supported by Pálmi Jónsson’s Nature Conservation Fund, Náttúruverndarsjóður Pálma Jónssonar.
The translation of the book was supported by the Icelandic Literature Center.
I dedicate this book to my wife, Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir, and my children Valgerður, Þórhallur, Ásdís, Björn and Svanhildur
Foreword
Glaciers are an essential part of the Icelandic identity. They hover in their beauty and magnificence on the horizons far and wide around the country, whatever their names: Snæfellsjökull, Öræfajökull, Eyjafjallajökull. These white giants play such
