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On a Remarkable Glacier-Lake, formed by a Branch of the Hardanger-Jökul, near Eidflörd, Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Robert Munro
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Lakes whose causal conditions are due to the direct interposition of glaciers, may be formed in one or other of the two following ways. First, when a glacier descending a lateral valley protrudes so far as to dam up a river in the main valley, the obstructing element being either the actual ice or the morainic débris deposited from it. Or, secondly, when a glacier occupying a main valley blocks up the outlet of some tributary stream. In both instances the water accumulates behind the obstruction and so forms a lake, varying in size according to the height of the barrier and the surface configuration of the district immediately above it.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 20 , 1895 , pp. 53 - 62
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1895

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