Late Quaternary glacial episodes in the Hornsund Region of Spitsbergen |
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| Authors: | LESZEK LINDNER LESZEK MARKS KAZIMIERZ PEKALA |
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| Institution: | Institute of Geology, Warsaw University, Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93, 02–089 Warsaw, Poland;Institute of the Earth Sciences, M. Curie-Skiodowska University, ul. Akademicka 19, 20–033 Lublin, Poland |
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| Abstract: | On the basis of field and laboratory studies supported by thermoluminescence dates, an occurrence of marine and glacial sediments is described from South Spitsbergen. These deposits are thought to date from the Holsteinian interglacial and the Saalian glacial stages respectively. In addition, the evidence and extent of Vistulian and Holoccne glacial advances in South Spitsbergen are presented. These advances occurred at 50,000–43,000, 30,000–10,000, 3,000–2,500 and 600–100 years B.P. The latter have been tentatively correlated with those recorded in other parts of Svalbard, as well as in East Greenland, the Barents Sea, Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, North Poland and the Russian Plain. |
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