Grounding-line fan formation during an Early Holocene readvance of Aldegondabreen, Svalbard.

• Main Author: Jóhannesdóttir, Jóhanna Kristín
• 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::Geosciences: 450::Sedimentology: 456; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Sedimentologi: 456; GEO-3900; Aldegondabreen; Cross Valley; Svalbard; glacier; Tidewater; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25482

In this study, two ridge-shaped cross-valley sedimentary landforms, in the lower forefield of Aldegondabreen, a small valley glacier on the west coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, were studied to reconstruct the Holocene glacial history of Aldegondabreen prior to the Little Ice Age. Sedimentological an...