Pleistocene ice at the bottom of the Vavilov ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic

• Main Authors: Stievenart, Michel, Nikolaëv, Vladimir, Bol'shiyanov, Dmitri D.Yu., Fléhoc, Christine, Jouzel, Jean, Klementyev, Oleg O.L., Souchez, Roland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Géologie et minéralogie; Arctic; Severnaya Zemlya; Ice cap; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/170501

The Vavilov ice cap was perforated in 1988 by a drilling which reached the underlying frozen sediments. In contrast to the overlying glacier ice, the basal ice is composed of different ice layers with a variable debris load. The stable-isotope composition of these layers shows δ values much lower than everywhere else in the core or in the Vavilov ice cap. This is most probably the signature of a remnant of Pleistocene ice which, for the first time, is shown to occur in the Russian Arctic. SCOPUS: ar.j info:eu-repo/semantics/published