Kviarjökull (southeast Iceland) has been a focus of academic study for decades owing to its impressive lateral moraines that can reach up to 150 m in height. It is a key location for our University of Plymouth geography students on their final year Iceland field class. In May 2017 one group focussed their 3-day project on mapping and dating a major breach through the western lateral moraine at Kviarjökull. This model shows a 60 m high exposed rock cliff on the southern edge of the breach. The cliff has been glacially polished and there are very clear striations where boulders have been scraped against the cliff, providing clear evidence of ice flow in the past, and the perched boulders can only have been deposited by ice. The model was made using a ground-based DSLR (22 photographs).
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