Greenland Ice Sheet History Since the Last Glaciation

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Ten Brink, Norman W., Weidick, Anker
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1974
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Keglen; Taserqat; Davis Strait; East Greenland; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(74)90038-6; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900386?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589474900386?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400031288

The position of the Inland Ice margin during the late Wisconsin-Würm glaciation (ca. 15,000 yr BP) is probably marked by offshore banks (submarine moraines?) in the Davis Strait. The history of the Inland Ice since the late Wisconsin-Würm can be divided into four principal phases: (1) Relatively slo...