Quantification of dead‐ice melting in ice‐cored moraines at the high‐Arctic glacier Holmströmbreen, Svalbard

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: SCHOMACKER, ANDERS, KJÆR, KURT H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Holmströmbreen; Svalbard; glacier; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00014.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.2007.00014.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00014.x

An extensive dead‐ice area has developed at the stagnant snout of the Holmströmbreen glacier, Svalbard, following its last advance during the Little Ice Age (LIA). The most common landform is ice‐cored slopes hosting sediment gravity flows. Dead‐ice melting is described and quantified through field...