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Cosmogenic Isotope
Research
Quaternary Research
Center
The geometry of the last Svalbard/Barents Sea and Scandinavian ice sheets
Drilling into a granite erratic for cosmogenic isotope
dating on Amsterdamøya, NW Svalbard
Principal Investigators
Dr. Jon Landvik, Agricultural University of NorwayDr. Otto Salvigssen, Norsk Polarinstitutt
Dr. Lyn Gualtieri, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington
lyn4@u.washington.edu
Otto, Lyn and Jon
Funding
Research Council of NorwayProject Summary
This is part of the Past Climates of the Norwegian Region (NORPAST)
project. Samples were collected in May 1999 and 2000 from western Svalbard for
cosmogenic isotope dating in order to assess the western extent of the Late
Weichselian Svalbard-Barents Sea ice sheet.Publications resulting from this research
Landvik, J.Y., Brook, E.J., Gualtieri, L., Raisbeck. G., Salvigsen, O. and Yiou, F. 2002. The Late Weichselian Ice Sheet Along Western Svalbard: Ice Free Areas Existed. 32nd International Arctic Workshop, Program and Abstracts. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO Landvik, J.Y., Salvigsen, O & Gualtieri, L. 2001. Geometry of the last ice sheet along the western Svalbard margin. Geonytt 2001: 70-71.
Salvigsen, O., Landvik, J.Y. & Gualtieri, L. 2001. Blockfields in Svalbard, evidence for subglacial survival. Geonytt 2001: 96-97.
Links
Svalbardposten newspaper article (in Norwegian!)NORPAST project
University Courses on Svalbard
Norsk Polarinstitutt