Svínafellsjökull
In the end I could not choose one out
Svínafellsjökull is one of the many crawling glaciers out of the main glacier Vatnajökull.
The crawling glaciers carry down the weight of ice the area can hold in place. In the worming climate of the last decades all crawling glaciers get shorter and thinner. Even the main shield of ice is getting thinner (and therefore the crawling glaciers have less material to move down from the main, adding still to them being shorter and thinner)
Some few of the crawling glaciers come from very flat area of Vatnajökull. In such areas the glacier can collect ice over a period and then the crawling glacier leaps - runs down with much more energy than normal - for some weeks until some kind of ballange is reached again.
Svínafellsjökull
In the end I could not choose one out
Svínafellsjökull is one of the many crawling glaciers out of the main glacier Vatnajökull.
The crawling glaciers carry down the weight of ice the area can hold in place. In the worming climate of the last decades all crawling glaciers get shorter and thinner. Even the main shield of ice is getting thinner (and therefore the crawling glaciers have less material to move down from the main, adding still to them being shorter and thinner)
Some few of the crawling glaciers come from very flat area of Vatnajökull. In such areas the glacier can collect ice over a period and then the crawling glacier leaps - runs down with much more energy than normal - for some weeks until some kind of ballange is reached again.