A Glacial Sedimentary System in Northwest Spitzbergen

• Main Author: Cromack, Marianne
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Scott Polar Research Institute 1991
• Subjects: Dryas Glacier; Krossfjorden; Signedalen; Signehamna; Krossfjord*; Spitzbergen; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.14163; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/268051

The record of climate change in Signedalen and Krossfjorden, northwest Spitsbergen, since the Late Weichselian glacial maximum, has been constructed using an integrated analysis of lacustrine, terrestrial and marine sediments. Thirty-four piston cores were taken from two series of linked lakes in Si...