Late Quaternary sedimentation and permafrost development in a Svalbard fjord‐valley, Norwegian high Arctic

• Published in: Sedimentology
• Main Authors: Gilbert, Graham L., O'Neill, Hugh B., Nemec, Wojciech, Thiel, Christine, Christiansen, Hanne H., Buylaert, Jan‐Pieter
• Other Authors: Eyles, Nick, Statoil, Baker Hughes, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Adventdalen; Arctic; Svalbard; Ice; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sed.12476; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fsed.12476; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/sed.12476

Abstract The infilling history of the Adventdalen fjord‐valley in central Spitsbergen is reconstructed, with a focus on permafrost development, based on sedimentological and cryostratigraphic evidence from drilling cores. The techniques of optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon accelerato...