Glacial geomorphology of the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland

• Main Authors: Benjamin M. Boyes (11389037), Danni M. Pearce (4838841), Lorna D. Linch (11389040)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Medicine; Pharmacology; Ecology; Sociology; Inorganic Chemistry; Infectious Diseases; Plant Biology; Virology; Computational Biology; Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Information Systems not elsewhere classified; Glacial geomorphology; Fennoscandian Ice Sheet; Kola Peninsula; Russian Lapland; Arctic Russia; Arctic; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; kola peninsula; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16573289.v3

At present, there remains uncertainty surrounding the glacial history of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet on the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland, northwest Arctic Russia. This is attributed to the lack of high-resolution ice sheet-scale geomorphological data in the region. This paper presents 245,997 landforms in a new high-resolution, glacial geomorphological map of the Kola Peninsula and Russian Lapland. Individual landforms were mapped from relief-shaded renditions of the 2 m resolution ArcticDEM alongside 3 m resolution PlanetScope Ortho Scene data in a Geographic Information System (GIS). Digital mapping was accompanied by field mapping in selected areas. The map, which is presented at a scale of 1: 675,000, will form the basis of a palaeoglaciological reconstruction of northwest Arctic Russia that will inform ice sheet dynamics – at both a regional- and ice sheet-scale – and provide an important framework through which numerical ice sheet models can be constrained.