A Glacial Sedimentary System in Northwest Spitzbergen ...

• Main Author: Cromack, Marianne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 1991
• Subjects: Krossfjord*; Spitzbergen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.14163; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/268051

The record of climate change in Signedalen and Krossfjorden, northwest Spitsbergen, since the Late Weichselian glacial maximum, has been constructed using an integrated analysis of lacustrine, terrestrial and marine sediments. Thirty-four piston cores were taken from two series of linked lakes in Signedalen, fed by three small cirque glaciers. Six further cores were taken from the fjord inlet, Signehamna, into which meltwater from the linked glacier-fed lakes and a further two glaciers drain. Signehamna drains into Lilliehookfjorden, which with Mollerfjorden, combines to form Krossfjorden, from which 16 .cores were made available. Cores were analysed for moisture content, loss-on-ignition, bulk density, grain size, magnetic susceptibility, infra-red stimulated luminescence, by X-radiography and by radioisotopic dating methods, 210Pb and 14C. Bathymetric maps were constructed following echo sounding survey of the lakes. Seventy-two water samples from the linked lakes were used to assess contemporary ...