Glacial geomorphology of the Republic of Karelia, northwest Russia: the Younger Dryas-early Holocene ice marginal zone ...

• Main Authors: Boyes, Benjamin M., Pearce, Danni M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Subjects: Medicine; Pharmacology; Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified; Sociology; FOS Sociology; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Inorganic Chemistry; FOS Chemical sciences; Plant Biology; FOS Biological sciences; Computational Biology; Arctic; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; karelia*; Northwest Russia; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23647007; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Glacial_geomorphology_of_the_Republic_of_Karelia_northwest_Russia_the_Younger_Dryas-early_Holocene_ice_marginal_zone/23647007

At present, there remains uncertainty surrounding the Younger Dryas-early Holocene glacial history of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in northwest Arctic Russia. This stems from a lack of high-resolution ice sheet-scale geomorphological data in the region. To address this, this paper presents 15,355 meltwater and morainic landforms in a new large-scale, glacial geomorphological map of the Younger Dryas-early Holocene ice marginal zone in the Republic of Karelia, northwest Russia. Individual landforms were mapped from relief-shaded renditions of the 2 m resolution ArcticDEM alongside 1 m resolution Esri World Imagery data in a Geographic Information System (GIS). The map, which is presented at a scale of 1: 675,000, will form the basis of a palaeo-glaciological reconstruction of northwest Russia that will inform on 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. ...