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; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Glacial_geomorphology_of_the_Kola_Peninsula_and_Russian_Lapland/16573289

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.