Early Holocene environment on Bjørnøya (Svalbard) inferred from multidisciplinary lake sediment studies

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Wohlfarth, Barbara, Lemdahl, Geoffrey, Olsson, Siv, Persson, Thomas, Snowball, Ian, Ising, Jonas, Jones, Viv
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1995
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Bjørnøya; Norway; Svalbard; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/1951; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v14i2.6667

Bjørnøya, a small (178 km2) island situated between the mainland of Norway and southern Spitsbergen, provides the opportunity for the reconstruction of early Holocene terrestrial and limnic palaeoenvironments in the southwestern Barents Sea. The AMS 14C dating technique, geochemical, mineral magneti...