Switching of a paleo-ice stream in northwest Svalbard

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Sarkar, Sudipta, Berndt, Christian, Chabert, A., Masson, D. G., Minshull, T. A., Westbrook, G. K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2011
• Subjects: Svalbard; Yermak Plateau; Ice Sheet; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Svalbard margin; Van Mijenfjord; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/11542/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/11542/1/Switching.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/11542/3/1-s2.0-S0277379113000425-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.013

Ice streams are the fast-flowing zones of ice sheets that can discharge a large flux of ice. The glaciated western Svalbard margin consists of several cross-shelf troughs which are the former ice stream drainage pathways during the Pliocene–Pleistocene glaciations. From an integrated analysis of hig...