causing some floods
to reach maximum discharge in hours while other take days. Hydrographs of
different events, therefore, span a spectrum from rapidly rising jökulhlaups to
slowly rising jökulhlaups. Jökulhlaups can carry various materials other than water, such
as eroded ice or sediments, or eruptive
material in the case of subglacial
volcanic eruptions. Usually solid particles are only
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