A surge of North Gasherbrum Glacier, Karakoram, China
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Journal of Glaciology
- Vol. 57 (205), 904-916
- https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311798043834
Abstract
Between 2003 and 2007, North Gasherbrum Glacier on the northeastern slope of the Karakoram mountains in Asia underwent a dramatic acceleration, during which a velocity wave propagated down the glacier. There was a significant transfer of ice from up-glacier downstream, which resulted in a strong surface elevation increase over the lower tongue, but only a moderate advance of the glacier snout. We interpret this behaviour as that of a glacier surge, and we explain the observations by means of a simple version of the Kamb drainage-switching theory.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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