Quantification of dead-ice melting in ice-cored moraines at the high-Arctic glacier Holmströmbreen, Svalbard

Abstract in UndeterminedAn extensive dead-ice area has developed at the stagnant snout of the Holmstrombreen glacier, Svalbard, following its last advance during the Little Ice Age (LIA). The most common landform is ice-cored slopes hosting sediment gravity flows. Dead-ice melting is described and q...

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Published in:Boreas
Main Authors: Schomacker, Anders, Kjær, Kurt H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2008
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/634300
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00014.x