A multi-proxy approach to Late Holocene fluctuations of Tungnahryggsjökull glaciers in the Tröllaskagi peninsula (northern Iceland)

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Fernández-Fernández, José, M., Palacios, David, Andrés, Nuria, Schimmelpfennig, Irene, Brynjólfsson, Skafti, Sancho, Leopoldo, Zamorano, Jose, Heiðmarsson, Starri, Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn
• Other Authors: Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid Madrid (UCM), Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University of Iceland Reykjavik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Iceland; Tröllaskagi; Late Holocene glacier evolution; Little Ice Age; 36Cl Cosmic-Ray Exposure dating; Lichenometric dating; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology; [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology; [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry; Austurdalur; Tungnahryggsjökull; glacier
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02013550; https://hal.science/hal-02013550/document; https://hal.science/hal-02013550/file/Ferna%CC%81ndez-Ferna%CC%81ndez_et_al_2019_STOTEN_R2_preprint.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.364

International audience The Tröllaskagi Peninsula in northern Iceland hosts more than a hundred small glaciers that have left a rich terrestrial record of Holocene climatic fluctuations in their forelands. Traditionally, it has been assumed that most of the Tröllaskagi glaciers reached their Late Hol...