A glacial chronology for northern East Greenland

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Author: HJORT, CHRISTIAN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1981
• Subjects: Svalbard; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Kap; Hochstetter Forland; Nanok; Kap Mackenzie; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1981.tb00487.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1981.tb00487.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1981.tb00487.x

In East Greenland between 75d̀ and 76d̀N three different glacial episodes can be identified: (1) An early period with more or less total ice cover and in which the ice reached out onto the continental shelf ‐ the Kap Mackenzie stadial; (2) a period with glaciation of intermediate extent, when nunata...