Closed Antonarctica closed 4 years ago
@Antonarctica Thanks for the request!
Hi, Pier - Here is the combined GCW version - much the same as above.
Jokulhlaup's (an Icelandic term pronounced Yo-kul-hloips) are sudden outbursts of water released by a glacier. The water may be released from glacier cavities, sub-glacial lakes, and from glacier-dammed lakes in side valleys. A glacier outburst flood resulting from the failure of a glacier-ice-dam, glacier-sediment-dam, or from the melting of glacier ice by a volcanic eruption.
Has synonym glacial outburst flood.
Many thanks @rduerr I"ll weave that in and add the GCW synthesis placehoder.
Any large and abrupt release of water from a subglacial or proglacial lake/reservoir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jökulhlaup
Jonathan L. Carrivick (2011) Jökulhlaups: geological importance, deglacial association and hazard management. Geology Today, Vol. 27, No. 4
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2011.00800.x