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Depositional history of the North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Siberia - a landsystem approach

Alexanderson, Helena LU ; Adrielsson, Lena LU ; Hjort, Christian LU ; Möller, Per LU orcid ; Antonov, O ; Eriksson, S and Pavlov, M (2002) In Journal of Quaternary Science 17(4). p.361-382
Abstract
The sediment-landform associations of the northern Taymyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia tell a tale of ice sheets advancing from the Kara Sea shelf and inundating the peninsula, probably three times during the Weichselian. In each case the ice sheet had a margin frozen to its bed and an interior moving over a deforming bed. The North Taymyr ice-marginal zone (NTZ) comprises ice-marginal and supraglacial landsystems dominated by thrust-block moraines 2-3 km wide and large-scale deformation of sediments and ice. Large areas are still underlain by remnant glacier ice and a supraglacial landscape with numerous ice-walled lakes and kames is forming even today. The proglacial landsystem is characterised by subaqueous (e.g. deltas) or terrestrial... (More)
The sediment-landform associations of the northern Taymyr Peninsula in Arctic Siberia tell a tale of ice sheets advancing from the Kara Sea shelf and inundating the peninsula, probably three times during the Weichselian. In each case the ice sheet had a margin frozen to its bed and an interior moving over a deforming bed. The North Taymyr ice-marginal zone (NTZ) comprises ice-marginal and supraglacial landsystems dominated by thrust-block moraines 2-3 km wide and large-scale deformation of sediments and ice. Large areas are still underlain by remnant glacier ice and a supraglacial landscape with numerous ice-walled lakes and kames is forming even today. The proglacial landsystem is characterised by subaqueous (e.g. deltas) or terrestrial (e.g. sandar) environments, depending on location/altitude and time of formation. Dating results (OSL, C-14) indicate that the NTZ was initiated ca. 80 kyr BP during the retreat of the Early Weichselian ice sheet and that it records the maximum limit of a Middle Weichselian glaciation (ca. 65 kyr BP). During both these events, proglacial lakes were dammed by the ice sheets. Part of the NTZ was occupied by a thin Late Weichselian ice sheet (20-12 kyr BP), resulting in subaerial proglacial drainage. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. (Less)
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glaciation, ice-marginal zone, landsystem, Weichselian, Siberia
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Journal of Quaternary Science
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361 - 382
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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1099-1417
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10.1002/jqs.677
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English
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  author       = {{Alexanderson, Helena and Adrielsson, Lena and Hjort, Christian and Möller, Per and Antonov, O and Eriksson, S and Pavlov, M}},
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  pages        = {{361--382}},
  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{Journal of Quaternary Science}},
  title        = {{Depositional history of the North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Siberia - a landsystem approach}},
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