Constraining the chronology of Pleistocene glaciations on Svalbard: Kapp Ekholm re‐visited

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Eccleshall, Sarah V., Hormes, Anne, Hovland, Alexander, Preusser, Frank
• Other Authors: Svalbard Science Forum Arctic Field Grant, Norwegian Research Council to Sarah Eccleshall and Alexander Hovland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Kapp Ekholm; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12191; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12191; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12191

The Kapp Ekholm site, in central Spitsbergen, shows alternating units of glaciomarine sandy silt and diamicton representing three glacial cycles and is key in reconstructing the Late Pleistocene glacial history of Svalbard. Part of the site is reinvestigated here by focusing on re‐dating two units (...