Neoglacial plateau ice cap behaviour in Central Spitsbergen constrained by subglacially preserved vegetation.

• Main Author: Roche, Amélie
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2021
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Quaternary geology; glaciology: 465; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Kvartærgeologi; glasiologi: 465; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Vegetation history: 495; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Vegetasjonshistorie: 495; GEO-3900; Arctic; Bassen; Foxfonna; Svalbard; Climate change; glacier; Ice cap; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/21748

Cold-based glacial ice is well known to preserve underlying landforms produced by earlier processes but can also preserve pre-existing organic material and vegetated ground. With current rapid climate warming, overall glacier retreat in the Arctic is exposing formerly ice-buried in situ vegetation a...