Severnaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia: a nucleation area for Kara Sea ice sheets during the Middle to Late Quaternary

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Möller, Per, Lubinski, D., Ingólfsson, Ó., Forman, S.L, Siedenkrantz, M-S., Bolshiyanov, D. Yu., Lokrantz, H., Antonov, O., Pavlov, ´M., Ljung, Karl, Zeeberg, J.J., Andreev, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Geology; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kara Sea; Raised Beach; Severnaya Zemlya; Taymyr; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Taymyr Peninsula
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/590638; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.016

Quaternary glacial stratigraphy and relative sea-level changes reveal at least four expansions of the Kara Sea ice sheet over the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago at 79 degrees N in the Russian Arctic, as indicated from tills interbedded with marine sediments, exposed in stratigraphic superposition, and...