Glacier dynamics in the fjords of Svalbard, inferred from submarine landforms and marine sediment cores

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Author: Flink, Anne Elina
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2017
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450; Barents Sea; Mohnbukta; Nordaustlandet; Svalbard; Vaigattbogen; glacier; Hinlopen Strait; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16733

This thesis presents a reconstruction of the late Weichselian, deglacial and Holocene glacial history of the Svalbard fjords, focusing on eastern Svalbard. The study is based on high-resolution multibeam data, shallow acoustic (chirp) data, marine sediment cores, historical maps and aerial- satellit...