Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen
High-arctic fjords, for example, van Keulenfjorden on Spitsbergen, provide valuable palaeoenvironmental archives as they typically contain landforms and sediment sequences that document past changes in glacial activity with high temporal resolution. Van Keulenfjorden was covered with a grounded glac...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:4181341 2023-06-11T04:08:53+02:00 Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen Kempf, Philipp Forwick, Matthias Laberg, Jan Sverre Vorren, Tore O 2013 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4181341 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613499055 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341/file/4181352 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4181341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683613499055 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341/file/4181352 No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess HOLOCENE ISSN: 0959-6836 Earth and Environmental Sciences late Weichselian-Holocene sedimentary environment glacial surge fjord deglaciation Arctic Svalbard PUSH-MORAINES SEA-ICE SHEET BARENTS SEA SUBMARINE LANDFORMS SVALBARD MARGIN NORTH-ATLANTIC ISFJORDEN MARINE FJORDS SURGE journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613499055 2023-05-10T22:33:01Z High-arctic fjords, for example, van Keulenfjorden on Spitsbergen, provide valuable palaeoenvironmental archives as they typically contain landforms and sediment sequences that document past changes in glacial activity with high temporal resolution. Van Keulenfjorden was covered with a grounded glacier during the last glacial, and it was deglaciated between c. 11.8 and 11.3 cal. ka BP. The retreat of the ice front accelerated from approximately 80 to 190 m/a during the deglaciation. The maximum late Holocene glacier extent occurred after surge-like advances of the glacier Nathorstbreen between 2790 and 2610 cal. yr BP (i.e. during a period with the coldest climatic conditions on Svalbard). This maximum extent was reached approximately 2600 years earlier than inferred for most fjords on Svalbard, suggesting that surge-like glacier advances on Svalbard can occur under variable climatic conditions. The time interval between the advances of Nathorstbreen around 2.7 ka BP was approximately 100–150 years. This is comparable to the last and only historically known quiescent phase of Nathorstbreen of c. 120 years between the late 19th century and the most recent surge from 2003 to 2012. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barents Sea glacier Ice Sheet Isfjord* Isfjord* Isfjorden Isfjorden North Atlantic Sea ice Svalbard Svalbard margin Van Keulenfjorden Spitsbergen Ghent University Academic Bibliography Arctic Svalbard Barents Sea Van Keulenfjorden ENVELOPE(15.489,15.489,77.559,77.559) Nathorstbreen ENVELOPE(16.215,16.215,77.437,77.437) The Holocene 23 11 1607 1618 |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences late Weichselian-Holocene sedimentary environment glacial surge fjord deglaciation Arctic Svalbard PUSH-MORAINES SEA-ICE SHEET BARENTS SEA SUBMARINE LANDFORMS SVALBARD MARGIN NORTH-ATLANTIC ISFJORDEN MARINE FJORDS SURGE |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences late Weichselian-Holocene sedimentary environment glacial surge fjord deglaciation Arctic Svalbard PUSH-MORAINES SEA-ICE SHEET BARENTS SEA SUBMARINE LANDFORMS SVALBARD MARGIN NORTH-ATLANTIC ISFJORDEN MARINE FJORDS SURGE Kempf, Philipp Forwick, Matthias Laberg, Jan Sverre Vorren, Tore O Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences late Weichselian-Holocene sedimentary environment glacial surge fjord deglaciation Arctic Svalbard PUSH-MORAINES SEA-ICE SHEET BARENTS SEA SUBMARINE LANDFORMS SVALBARD MARGIN NORTH-ATLANTIC ISFJORDEN MARINE FJORDS SURGE |
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High-arctic fjords, for example, van Keulenfjorden on Spitsbergen, provide valuable palaeoenvironmental archives as they typically contain landforms and sediment sequences that document past changes in glacial activity with high temporal resolution. Van Keulenfjorden was covered with a grounded glacier during the last glacial, and it was deglaciated between c. 11.8 and 11.3 cal. ka BP. The retreat of the ice front accelerated from approximately 80 to 190 m/a during the deglaciation. The maximum late Holocene glacier extent occurred after surge-like advances of the glacier Nathorstbreen between 2790 and 2610 cal. yr BP (i.e. during a period with the coldest climatic conditions on Svalbard). This maximum extent was reached approximately 2600 years earlier than inferred for most fjords on Svalbard, suggesting that surge-like glacier advances on Svalbard can occur under variable climatic conditions. The time interval between the advances of Nathorstbreen around 2.7 ka BP was approximately 100–150 years. This is comparable to the last and only historically known quiescent phase of Nathorstbreen of c. 120 years between the late 19th century and the most recent surge from 2003 to 2012. |
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Kempf, Philipp Forwick, Matthias Laberg, Jan Sverre Vorren, Tore O |
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Kempf, Philipp Forwick, Matthias Laberg, Jan Sverre Vorren, Tore O |
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Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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Late Weichselian and Holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen |
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late weichselian and holocene sedimentary palaeoenvironment and glacial activity in the high-arctic van keulenfjorden, spitsbergen |
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https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4181341 https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613499055 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4181341/file/4181352 |
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ENVELOPE(15.489,15.489,77.559,77.559) ENVELOPE(16.215,16.215,77.437,77.437) |
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Arctic Svalbard Barents Sea Van Keulenfjorden Nathorstbreen |
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Arctic Svalbard Barents Sea Van Keulenfjorden Nathorstbreen |
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Arctic Barents Sea glacier Ice Sheet Isfjord* Isfjord* Isfjorden Isfjorden North Atlantic Sea ice Svalbard Svalbard margin Van Keulenfjorden Spitsbergen |
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Arctic Barents Sea glacier Ice Sheet Isfjord* Isfjord* Isfjorden Isfjorden North Atlantic Sea ice Svalbard Svalbard margin Van Keulenfjorden Spitsbergen |
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