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Submarine landforms and past ice flow in the Krossfjorden system, northwest Svalbard / David James.

Title: Submarine landforms and past ice flow in the Krossfjorden system, northwest Svalbard / David James.
Author(s): James, David.
Date: 2013.
Abstract: Analyses very high resolution swath-bathymetric data to investigate submarine landforms within Krossfjorden and infer past sedimentary processes and glacial activity. Reconstructs past ice extent, flow and pattern of retreat of system's tidewater glaciers to their present positions, confirming that ice extended to shelf edge west of Svalbard during Late Weichselian glacial maximum. Infers from scarcity of ice-marginal features in Krossfjorden proper that post-LGM retreat was relatively rapid. Identifies Little Ice Age advances varying from 2.3 to 5 km for five tidewater glaciers, with retreat rates from maximum extents around 100 years ago varying from 10 to 45 m/yr. Attributes retreat rate variation to local differences in drainage-basin size, fjord depth and bedrock pinning points.
Notes:

Unpublished thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of M.Phil. in Polar Studies, University of Cambridge.

Keywords: 551.32 -- Glaciology.
551.324.54 -- Land ice, flow of particular glaciers.
551.324.63 -- Land ice, advance and retreat.
551.336 -- Ice ages.
551.33 -- Glacial geology.
551.46 -- Oceanography, physical.
550.8 -- Geology and geophysics, applied.
551.462 -- Submarine topography, bottom forms.
551.332.51 -- Ice-marginal landforms.
551.337 -- Chronology of the Pleistocene and recent periods.
551.468.2 -- Fjords, oceanography.
551.332.25 -- Glacio-marine deposits.
551.324.22 -- Glaciers.
551.331.52 -- Glaciated valleys.
551.791 -- Pleistocene.
E7 -- Glaciology: glacial geology and ice ages.
(*32) -- Svalbard.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-THE: 2013[Jam]
SPRI record no.: 204768

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650 07 ‡a551.336 -- Ice ages.‡2udc
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