Age and extent of the Barents and Kara ice sheets in Northern Russia

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: MANGERUD, JAN, SVENDSEN, JOHN INGE, ASTAKHOV, VALERY I.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1999
• Subjects: Barents Sea; White Sea; Dammed Lake; Markhida; Indiga; Ice Sheet; ural mountains
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1999.tb00206.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1999.tb00206.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1999.tb00206.x

The youngest ice marginal zone between the White Sea and the Ural mountains is the W‐E trending belt of moraines called the Varsh‐Indiga‐Markhida‐Harbei‐Halmer‐Sopkay, here called the Markhida line. Glacial elements show that it was deposited by the Kara Ice Sheet, and in the west, by the Barents Ic...