Multibeam bathymetry and the depositional environments of Kongsfjorden and Krossjorden, western Spitzbergen, Svalbard

• Main Authors: Howe, J.A., Moreton, S.G., Morri, C., Morris, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Co-Action Publishing 2003
• Subjects: QE Geology; Svalbard; Kronebreen; Krossfjorden; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Krossfjord*; Polar Research; Spitzbergen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/257/

Kongsfjorden and Krossfjorden are two ice-proximal fjords on the western coast of Spitsbergen which have been surveyed using multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiling and gravity coring. Central and outer Kongsfjorden is dominated by a 30 km2 outcrop of bedrock, with a thin (< 10 m) sediment cov...