Episodic Neoglacial snowline descent and glacier expansion on Svalbard reconstructed from the 14C ages of ice-entombed plants

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Miller, Gifford, Landvik, J., Lehman, S., Southon, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pergamon 2017
• Subjects: Ela; Svalbard; glacier
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51182; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.023

The response of the Northern Hemisphere cryosphere to the monotonic decline in summer insolation and variable radiative forcing during the Holocene has been one of irregular expansion culminating in the Little Ice Age, when most glaciers attained their maximum late Holocene dimensions. Although peri...