Glacier extent in a Novaya Zemlya fjord during the Little Ice Age inferred from glaciomarine sediment records

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Zeeberg, J.J., Forman, S.L., Polyak, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: 20th-century; barents; north-atlantic; russia; Arctic; Barents Sea; Russkaya; glacier; North Atlantic; Novaya Zemlya; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/glacier-extent-in-a-novaya-zemlya-fjord-during-the-little-ice-age; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v22i2.6467

Glacier activity at Russkaya Gavan', north-west Novaya Zemlya (Arctic Russia), is reconstructed by particle size analysis of three fjord sediment cores in combination with 14C and 210Pb dating. Down-core logging of particle size variation reveals at least two intervals with sediment coarsening...