Moraine development at a small High‐Arctic valley glacier: Rieperbreen, Svalbard

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Lyså, Astrid, Lønne, Ida
• Other Authors: Research Council of Norway, Roald Amundsens Minnefond, Norwegian Polar Institute, Center for Kvinneforskning og kvinner i forskning (University of Tromsø), Geological Survey of Norway
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Rieperbreen; Svalbard; glacier
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.613; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.613; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.613

Abstract Ice‐cored lateral and frontal moraine complexes, formed at the margin of the small, land‐based Rieperbreen glacier, central Svalbard, have been investigated through field observations and interpretations of aerial photographs (1936, 1961 and 1990). The main focus has been on the stratigraph...