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Roar Bævre Photography

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Posted: 28 Nov 2016

Taken: 03 Oct 2016

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Fossil deltas from the end of the last ice age, Dørålen, Rondane mountains.

Fossil deltas from the end of the last ice age, Dørålen, Rondane mountains.
The last part of the road was closed, so I had to take a photo of this from a distance. I planned to do a walk in that special landscape on top of the terraces.

Gudrun, Erhard Bernstein have particularly liked this photo

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 Gudrun
Gudrun club
Amazing feature- totally flat on top!
7 years ago.
Roar Bævre Photograp… club has replied to Gudrun club
The different levels you see are created by sinking water levels in the glacier dammed lake the formed between the glacier and valley side. It was not a slow reduction of the water level, instead the ice dam failed and the lake drained catastrophically as an Jökullaup. When the water levels came back up, it was at a lower levels as before because the glacier was melting.
7 years ago.
Gudrun club has replied to Roar Bævre Photograp… club
I didn't know this happened in Norway too- I remember reading about one glacier lake in Chilean Patagonia and of course lakes in the Himalayas where it is a real threat.
7 years ago.
Roar Bævre Photograp… club has replied to Gudrun club
It happens in all areas with a great ice cover in retreat. There are many proofs of this in Norway, like beach marks in the hillsides and remains of deltas and drainage channels. In larger former lakes there are also large deposits of lake bed sediments. The largest glacial lake in Norway was Lake Nedre Glåmsjø. It spanned several valley systems when it was at he largest. I will post a photo from this trip, showing one of the biggest visible traces of that lake, the Jutulhogget. Jökullaups are indeed a big Geo hazard in areas like the Andes and Himalayas.
7 years ago.

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