Proglacial sediments in High Arctic glacier foreland: A case study of Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard ...

• Main Authors: Stachniak, Katarzyna, Janik, Krzysztof, Sitek, Sławomir
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Climate change; glacier; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11104578; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11104578

The glacier environment exhibit a high sensitivity to the global climate change leading to progressive deglaciation and the exposure of previously ice-covered land. The newly exposed terrain provides a valuable opportunity to observe rapid ecosystem changes, such as the accumulation of glacial sediments, the development of soil-forming and progressive alterations in water and biogeochemical cycles. While developing hydrological and hydrogeological models for the Werenskioldbreen proglacial expanding zone, we encountered a significant problem due to insufficient data for parameterizing glacial sediments, constituting the environment for water flow and storage. These data provide detail insight into the physicochemical parameters of glacial sediments and classify them in terms of grain size distribution, hydraulic conductivity, pH, and Corg, Nt and Pt contents. Samples for macroscopic examination and further laboratory analysis were collected from each different proglacial sediment in the profile. Macroscopic ... : Keywords: glacial sediments, granulometric composition, phisicochemical properties, Werenskioldbreen forefield ...