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 Übersetzung für '[jökulhlaup]' von Englisch nach Deutsch
geol.spec.
jokulhlaup [also spelled jökulhlaup] [from Icelandic] [glacier leap, glacier outburst flood]
Gletscherlauf {m}
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • Lake George was recognized because of a unique natural phenomenon called a "jökulhlaup", an Icelandic term for glacial lake outburst flood.
  • Eruptions from these volcanoes have led to the development of large pockets of water beneath the ice, which may burst the weakened ice and cause a jökulhlaup (glacial lake outburst flood).
  • A jökulhlaup is thus a sub-glacial outburst flood.
  • In both cases, a jökulhlaup may be produced in connection with them.
  • At more or less the same place another eruption had taken place in the 1930s. It had also caused a jökulhlaup, but at the time, science could not yet analyze the events.

  • A jökulhlaup (...) (literally "glacial leap") is a type of glacial outburst flood. It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted in glaciological terminology in many languages.
  • The water contains elevated levels of dissolved hydrogen sulfide, suggesting increased volcanic activity under the ice. Jökulhlaup (glacial lake flooding) can occur before or after an eruption.
  • In the northern arm of its jökulhlaup surface, North Branch Buffalo Creek has a braided channel.
  • The large troughs present in each pole, Chasma Boreale and Chasma Australe, have both been argued to have been formed by meltwater release from beneath polar ice, as in a terrestrial jökulhlaup.
  • The highest discharge ever measured in the Markarfljót was [...] in 1967, during the Steinholt jökulhlaup.

  • The outwash plain was built by the numerous jökulhlaups of the Mýrdalsjökull.
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