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Research article
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30 May 2017
Research article |
| 30 May 2017
Cryostratigraphy, sedimentology, and the late Quaternary evolution of the Zackenberg River delta, northeast Greenland
Arctic Geology Department, University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box
156, 9170 Longyearbyen, Norway
Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Realfagbygget,
Allegt. 41, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Stefanie Cable
Arctic Geology Department, University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box
156, 9170 Longyearbyen, Norway
Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural
Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350
Copenhagen, Denmark
Christine Thiel
Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence Dating, Department of Earth
Sciences, Aarhus University, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Centre for Nuclear Technologies (Nutech), Technical
University of Denmark, Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Section S3: Geochronology
and Isotope Hydrology, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hanover, Germany
Hanne H. Christiansen
Arctic Geology Department, University Centre in Svalbard, PO Box
156, 9170 Longyearbyen, Norway
Bo Elberling
Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural
Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Short summary
We reconstruct the Holocene development of the Zackenberg River delta (northeast Greenland) using a combination of sedimentology, cryostratigraphy, and geochronology. We distinguish four major depositional environments and identify three cryofacies. We apply the principles of cryostratigraphy to infer the aggradational history of permafrost. This paper contains an archive of ground ice in epigenetic permafrost in northeast Greenland.
We reconstruct the Holocene development of the Zackenberg River delta (northeast Greenland)...
