Late Quaternary glacial episodes in the Hornsund Region of Spitsbergen

On the basis of field and laboratory studies supported by thermoluminescence dates, an occurrence of marine and glacial sediments is described from South Spitsbergen. These deposits are thought to date from the Holsteinian interglacial and the Saalian glacial stages respectively. In addition, the ev...

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Published in:Boreas
Main Authors: LINDNER, LESZEK, MARKS, LESZEK, PEKALA, KAZIMIERZ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1984
Subjects:
Barents Sea
Greenland
Hornsund
Svalbard
East Greenland
Spitsbergen
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1984.tb00058.x
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Summary:On the basis of field and laboratory studies supported by thermoluminescence dates, an occurrence of marine and glacial sediments is described from South Spitsbergen. These deposits are thought to date from the Holsteinian interglacial and the Saalian glacial stages respectively. In addition, the evidence and extent of Vistulian and Holoccne glacial advances in South Spitsbergen are presented. These advances occurred at 50,000–43,000, 30,000–10,000, 3,000–2,500 and 600–100 years B.P. The latter have been tentatively correlated with those recorded in other parts of Svalbard, as well as in East Greenland, the Barents Sea, Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, North Poland and the Russian Plain.

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