Faint traces of high Arctic glaciations: an early Holocene ice‐front fluctuation in Bolterdalen, Svalbard

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Author: LØNNE, IDA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; The Beaches; Adventfjorden; Bolterdalen; glacier; Ice; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01103.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.2005.tb01103.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01103.x

Raised marine beach gravel at 62 m a.s.l. in Bolterdalen indicates that the inner part of Adventfjorden, central Spitsbergen, was ice‐free shortly before 10 025±160yr BP. A glacier advanced across the regressive, frozen beach terraces and into shallow water, 58 m above the present sea level, where a...