Age determination of sediment cores off western Spitsbergen

• Main Authors: Svendsen, John-Inge, Mangerud, Jan, Elverhoi, Anders, Solheim, Anders, Schüttenhelm, Ruud TE
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1992
• Subjects: 87-137PC; 87-138; 87-144PC; 88-PCM-01; 88-PCM-2; 88-PCM-3; PC; Piston corer; Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North; QUEEN; QUEEN_Exped; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.732390; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.732390

The Late Weichselian glacial history of the continental shelf off western Spitsbergen is discussed, based on acoustic sub-bottom records and sediment cores. The outer part of Isfjorden and the inner shelf to the west of this fjord are characterized by a thin veneer (10-20 m) of glacigenic sediments...