Holocene ice marginal fluctuations of the Qassimiut lobe in South Greenland

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Larsen, Nicolaj K., Find, Jesper, Kristensen, Anders, Bjørk, Anders A., Kjeldsen, Kristian K., Odgaard, Bent V., Olsen, Jesper, Kjær, Kurt H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: Article; Greenland; Qassimiut; glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778018/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26940998; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep22362

Knowledge about the Holocene evolution of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is important to put the recent observations of ice loss into a longer-term perspective. In this study, we use six new threshold lake records supplemented with two existing lake records to reconstruct the Holocene ice marginal f...