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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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 |