A multi-proxy approach to Late Holocene fluctuations of Tungnahryggsjökull glaciers in the Tröllaskagi peninsula (northern Iceland)

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Fernández Fernández, José María, Palacios Estremera, David, De Andrés de Pablo, Nuria, Schimmelpfennig, Irene, Brynjólfsson, Skafti, García Sancho, Leopoldo, Zamorano, José J., Heiðmarsson, Starri, Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn, Team, ASTER
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: 911.2; 551.4; 551.4.06; 551.583.7; Iceland; Tröllaskagi; Late Holocene glacier evolution; Geografía física; 2505.07 Geografía Física; 2506.07 Geomorfología; 2502.05 Paleoclimatología; 2506.09 Geología Glacial; Nils; Tungnahryggsjökull; Austurdalur; glacier
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113370; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.364

The Tröllaskagi Peninsula in northern Iceland hosts more than a hundred small glaciers that have left a rich terrestrial record of Holocene climatic fluctuations in their forelands. Traditionally, it has been assumed that most of the Tröllaskagi glaciers reached their Late Holocene maximum extent du...