A High Arctic inner shelf–fjord system from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present: Bessel Fjord and southwest Dove Bugt, northeastern Greenland

Zoller, Kevin; Laberg, Jan Sverre; Rydningen, Tom Arne; Husum, Katrine; Forwick, Matthias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1321-2023

Articles | Volume 19, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1321-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1321-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 7

Research article

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10 Jul 2023

Research article |

| 10 Jul 2023

A High Arctic inner shelf–fjord system from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present: Bessel Fjord and southwest Dove Bugt, northeastern Greenland

Kevin Zoller, Jan Sverre Laberg, Tom Arne Rydningen, Katrine Husum, and Matthias Forwick

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Supporting Data for: A high-Arctic inner shelf–fjord system from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Present: Bessel Fjord and SW Dove Bugt, NE Greenland Kevin Zoller, Jan Sverre Laberg, and Tom Arne Rydningen https://doi.org/10.18710/IXW3VA

Short summary

Marine geologic data from NE Greenland provide new information about the behavior of the Greenland Ice Sheet from the last glacial period to present. Seafloor landforms suggest that a large, fast-flowing ice stream moved south through southern Dove Bugt. This region is believed to have been deglaciated from at least 11.4 ka cal BP. Ice in an adjacent fjord, Bessel Fjord, may have retreated to its modern position by 7.1 ka cal BP, and the ice halted or readvanced multiple times upon deglaciation.