Glacial geomorphology of the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland

• Main Authors: Boyes, Benjamin M., Pearce, Danni M., Linch, Lorna D.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Subjects: Medicine; Pharmacology; 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Physical sciences; Sociology; FOS Sociology; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified; FOS Computer and information sciences; Inorganic Chemistry; FOS Chemical sciences; 110309 Infectious Diseases; FOS Health sciences; Plant Biology; 60506 Virology; Computational Biology; Arctic; Kola Peninsula; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; kola peninsula; Lapland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16573289.v2; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Glacial_geomorphology_of_the_Kola_Peninsula_and_Russian_Lapland/16573289/2

At present, there remains uncertainty surrounding the glacial history of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet on the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland, northwest Arctic Russia. This is attributed to the lack of high-resolution ice sheet-scale geomorphological data in the region. This paper presents 245,997 landforms in a new high-resolution, glacial geomorphological map of the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland. Individual landforms were mapped from relief-shaded renditions of the 2 m resolution ArcticDEM alongside 3 m resolution PlanetScope Ortho Scene data in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Digital mapping was accompanied by field mapping in selected areas. The map, which is presented at a scale of 1: 675,000, will form the basis of a palaeoglaciological reconstruction of northwest Arctic Russia that will inform ice sheet dynamics – at both a regional- and ice sheet-scale – and provide an important framework through which numerical ice sheet models can be constrained.