Submarine evidence of glacier surges

Surges constitute a common form of glacier advance on the Svalbard archipelago (Liestd 1969), northwestern Barents Sea. The Austfonna ice cap (8100 km2) covers most of Nordaustlandet, the second largest island in the archipelago (Fig. 1). It has its entire southern and eastern front grounded in the...

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Published in:Polar Research
Main Author: Solheim, Anders
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1986
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Online Access:https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2497
https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v4i1.6925