Holocene glacier activity reconstructed from proglacial lake Gjøavatnet on Amsterdamøya, NW Svalbard

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: de Wet, Gregory A., Balascio, Nicholas L., D'Andrea, William J., Bakke, Jostein, Bradley, Raymond S., Perren, Bianca
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Svalbard; Amsterdamøya; Annabreen; glacier
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514516/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514516/1/de%20Wet%20-%20Holocene%20glacier%20activity%20reconstructed%20AAM.pdf; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379117302548

Well-dated and highly resolved paleoclimate records from high latitudes allow for a better understanding of past climate change. Lake sediments are excellent archives of environmental change, and can record processes occurring within the catchment, such as the growth or demise of an upstream glacier...