Multibeam bathymetry and the depositional environments of Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden, western Spitsbergen, Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Howe, John A., Moreton, Steven G., Morri, Clara, Morris, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2003
• Subjects: Svalbard; Kronebreen; Krossfjorden; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Krossfjord*; Polar Research; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17660/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17660/1/Multibeam_bathymetry.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v22i2.6462

Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden are two ice-proximal fjords on the western coast of Spitsbergen which have been surveyed using multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiling and gravity coring. Central and outer Kongsfjorden is dominated by a 30 km2 outcrop of bedrock, with a thin (<10m) sediment cover...