Atlantic Water advection vs. glacier dynamics in northern Spitsbergen since early deglaciation

Bartels, Martin; Titschack, Jürgen; Fahl, Kirsten; Stein, Rüdiger; Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig; Hillaire-Marcel, Claude; Hebbeln, Dierk

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1717-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1717-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1717-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Research article

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30 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 30 Nov 2017

Atlantic Water advection vs. glacier dynamics in northern Spitsbergen since early deglaciation

Martin Bartels, Jürgen Titschack, Kirsten Fahl, Rüdiger Stein, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Claude Hillaire-Marcel, and Dierk Hebbeln

Data sets

Multi-proxy palaeo-data of sediment core GeoB10817-4 from N-Spitsbergen including benthic foraminifera, IRD, stable isotopes, grain sizes and biomarkers M. Bartels, J. Titschack, K. Fahl, R. Stein, M.-S. Seidenkrantz, C. Hillaire-Marcel, and D. Hebbeln https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.882243

Short summary

Multi-proxy analyses (i.a., benthic foraminiferal assemblages and sedimentary properties) of a marine record from Woodfjorden at the northern Svalbard margin (Norwegian Arctic) illustrate a significant contribution of relatively warm Atlantic water to the destabilization of tidewater glaciers, especially during the deglaciation and early Holocene (until ~ 7800 years ago), whereas its influence on glacier activity has been fading during the last 2 millennia, enabling glacier readvances.