Mass-balance estimates on the glacier complex Kongsvegen and Sveabreen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, using radioactive layers

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Lefauconnier, Bernard, Hagen, Jon Ove, Pinglot, Jean Francis, Pourchet, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1994
• Subjects: Earth-Surface Processes; Svalbard; Ela; Kongsvegen; Sveabreen; glacier; Journal of Glaciology; Novaya Zemlya; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000007450; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143000007450

Abstract Analyses of total β and γ radioactivity have been carried out on ten shallow ice cores collected in 1989 and 1990 on Kongsvegen and Sveabreen, Spitsbergen. No peak of total β radioactivity, corresponding to the Chernobyl accident (1986), can be identified. Chernobyl layers were identified b...