Paraglacial Modifications of Glacial Sediments Over Millennial to Decadal Time-Scales in the High Arctic (Billefjorden, Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard)

• Published in: QUAGEO
• Main Author: Rachlewicz, Grzegorz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 2010
• Subjects: glacial geomorphology; Quaternary glaciations; sediment characteristics; paraglacial modifications; Spitsbergen; Arctic; Svalbard; Billefjorden; glacier; Ice; Ice Sheet; permafrost
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/qg/article/view/v10117-010-0023-4

The paper discuss the morphologic expression and sedimentological record left after the operation of glacial episodes in the area of Billefjorden, central Spitsbergen, in the period of Late Pleistocene ice-sheet development and in the last advance of glaciers in the Little Ice Age (LIA) around the b...