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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Stone Sorting Phenomenon, Svartisen, Norway
Contributor:
Jeffries, Martin
Published:
Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, 1982
Published in:
Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography, 64 (1982) 1/2, Seite 21-24
Language:
English
ISSN:
0435-3676;
1468-0459
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Small pockets of stones, in which a one grain thick layer of coarser material overlies finer particles, occur near the margin of the Norwegian glacier Østerdalsisen, on the lower slopes of Burfjell. The stones in the upper layer are closely packed and their long axes near-horizontal. In some pockets, size sorting of the upper layer has occurred, the grains fining downslope. Sorting is considered to result from a combination of meltwater saturation, frost heaving, needle ice formation and turning and compaction of stones under a snow cover.