Constraining the chronology of Pleistocene glaciations on Svalbard: Kapp Ekholm re-visited

• Main Authors: Eccleshall, Sarah, Hormes, Anne, Hovland, Alexander, Preusser, Frank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2016
• Subjects: chronology; pleistocene; ekholm; kapp; constraining; visited; svalbard; re; glaciations; Medicine and Health Sciences; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Kapp Ekholm; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/4139

The Kapp Ekholm site, in central Spitsbergen, shows alternating units of glaciomarine sandy silt and diamicton representing three glacial cycles and is key in reconstructing the Late Pleistocene glacial history of Svalbard. Part of the site is reinvestigated here by focusing on re-dating two units (...