The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview
The eastern part Svalbard archipelago and the adjacent areas of the Barents Sea were subject to extensive erosion during the Late Weichselian glaciation. Small remnants of older sediment successions have been preserved on Edgeeya, whereas a more complete succession on Kongsøya contains sediments fro...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/1941 2023-05-15T15:38:39+02:00 The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview Landvik, Jon Y. Hjort, Christian Mangerud, Jan Möller, Per Salvigsen, Otto 1995-01-11 application/pdf https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1941 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v14i2.6657 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1941/5190 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1941 doi:10.3402/polar.v14i2.6657 Copyright (c) 2018 Polar Research Polar Research; Vol. 14 No. 2 (1995): Special issue: the PONAM project in eastern Svalbard; 95-104 1751-8369 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1995 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v14i2.6657 2021-11-11T19:11:42Z The eastern part Svalbard archipelago and the adjacent areas of the Barents Sea were subject to extensive erosion during the Late Weichselian glaciation. Small remnants of older sediment successions have been preserved on Edgeeya, whereas a more complete succession on Kongsøya contains sediments from two different ice-free periods, both probably older than the Early Weichselian. Ice movement indicators in the region suggest that the Late Weichselian ice radiated from a centre east of Kong Karls Land. On Bjørnøya, on the edge of the Barents Shelf, the lack of raised shorelines or glacial striae from the east indicates that the western parts of the ice sheet were thin during the Late Weichselian. The deglaciation of Edgeøya and Barentsøya occurred ca 10,300 bp as a response to calving of the marine-based portion of the ice sheet. Atlantic water, which does not much influence the coasts of eastern Svalbard today, penetrated the northwestern Barents Sea shortly after the deglaciation. At that time, the coastal environment was characterised by extensive longshore sediment transport and deposition of spits at the mouths of shallow palaeo-fjords. Article in Journal/Newspaper Barents Sea Barentsøya Bjørnøya Edgeøya Ice Sheet Kong Karls Land Kongsøya Kongsøya Polar Research Svalbard Polar Research (E-Journal) Svalbard Barents Sea Svalbard Archipelago Bjørnøya ENVELOPE(-67.250,-67.250,-68.151,-68.151) Edgeøya ENVELOPE(22.500,22.500,77.750,77.750) Kong Karls Land ENVELOPE(28.000,28.000,78.833,78.833) Barentsøya ENVELOPE(21.250,21.250,78.450,78.450) Polar Research 14 2 95 104 |
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The eastern part Svalbard archipelago and the adjacent areas of the Barents Sea were subject to extensive erosion during the Late Weichselian glaciation. Small remnants of older sediment successions have been preserved on Edgeeya, whereas a more complete succession on Kongsøya contains sediments from two different ice-free periods, both probably older than the Early Weichselian. Ice movement indicators in the region suggest that the Late Weichselian ice radiated from a centre east of Kong Karls Land. On Bjørnøya, on the edge of the Barents Shelf, the lack of raised shorelines or glacial striae from the east indicates that the western parts of the ice sheet were thin during the Late Weichselian. The deglaciation of Edgeøya and Barentsøya occurred ca 10,300 bp as a response to calving of the marine-based portion of the ice sheet. Atlantic water, which does not much influence the coasts of eastern Svalbard today, penetrated the northwestern Barents Sea shortly after the deglaciation. At that time, the coastal environment was characterised by extensive longshore sediment transport and deposition of spits at the mouths of shallow palaeo-fjords. |
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Landvik, Jon Y. Hjort, Christian Mangerud, Jan Möller, Per Salvigsen, Otto The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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Landvik, Jon Y. Hjort, Christian Mangerud, Jan Möller, Per Salvigsen, Otto |
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The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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The Quaternary record of eastern Svalbard - an overview |
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quaternary record of eastern svalbard - an overview |
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Norwegian Polar Institute |
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ENVELOPE(-67.250,-67.250,-68.151,-68.151) ENVELOPE(22.500,22.500,77.750,77.750) ENVELOPE(28.000,28.000,78.833,78.833) ENVELOPE(21.250,21.250,78.450,78.450) |
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Barents Sea Barentsøya Bjørnøya Edgeøya Ice Sheet Kong Karls Land Kongsøya Kongsøya Polar Research Svalbard |
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Polar Research; Vol. 14 No. 2 (1995): Special issue: the PONAM project in eastern Svalbard; 95-104 1751-8369 |
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