An interglacial polar bear and an early Weichselian glaciation at Poolepynten, western Svalbard

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Alexanderson, Helena, Ingólfsson, Ólafur, Murray, Andrew S., Dudek, Justyna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Poolepynten; Svalbard
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00289.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.2012.00289.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00289.x

The recent discovery of a subfossil polar bear ( U rsus maritimus ) jawbone in the P oolepynten coastal cliff sequence, western S valbard, and its implications for the natural history of the polar bear motivated an effort to better constrain the environmental history and age envelope of the P oolepy...