in the Mestersvig District

• Main Authors: Naja Mikkelsen, Steve Carver, John Woodward, Hanne H. Christiansen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: East Greenland; Greenland; Mestersvig; Washburn
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.589.5194; http://www.geus.dk/publications/review-greenland-00/gsb189p115-121.pdf

The earliest thorough investigations of periglacial processes in Greenland were conducted from 1956–1961 in the Mestersvig region (72°N 24´W) of central East Greenland, where a number of experimental sites were established by A.L. Washburn (Fig. 1; Washburn 1965, 1967, 1969). Results from these investigations are still of relevance, and are quoted in recent periglacial liter-ature (e.g. Ballantyne & Harris 1994; French 1996). During the field seasons of 1998 and 2000 a resur-vey of Washburn’s original experimental sites was under-taken. The main purpose was to describe the state of preservation of the sites and to derive estimates of long-