Colm Ó Cofaigh, Julian A. Dowdeswell, Hannes Grobe,
... investigated using sedimentary and acoustic data from inner Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. Sedimentation in inner Scoresby Sund is dominated by three processes which are influenced ... and massive facies) dominate cores recovered from inner Scoresby Sund, accounting for 80% of the total, whereas diamict ... dominance of this iceberg-rafted sediment in outer Scoresby Sund reflects both its more distal location from fast- ... and suspension settling from overflow plumes in inner Scoresby Sund are similar to lithofacies produced in temperate and ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2001 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
Jan Sverre Laberg, Matthias Forwick, Katrine Husum, Tøve Nielsen,
... re-evaluation of the Pleistocene behavior of the Scoresby Sund sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet Jan Sverre ... re-evaluation of the Pleistocene behavior of the Scoresby Sund sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geology 2013;; ... have led to partly contradictory reconstructions. Whereas the Scoresby Sund sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet has been ... than ca. 2.58 Ma succession of the Scoresby Sund trough mouth fan on the East Greenland continental ... we revise previous findings and conclude that the Scoresby Sund sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
2013 - Geological Society of America | Geology
H. C. Larsen, Christian Marcussen,
... East Atlantic opening. The basin continues southward below Scoresby Sund fiord and the Scoresby Sund plateau basalts south of the fiord. By combining ... mapping with marine reflection and refraction seismics from Scoresby Sund and deep (6–12s) reflection seismics from the ... associated with this intense break-up volcanism. In Scoresby Sund there is a general rather conformable relationship between ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
1992 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
Lena Håkansson, Jason P. Briner, Helena Alexanderson, Ala Aldahan, Göran Possnert,
... LGM): ice to the shelf break south of Scoresby Sund and ice extending no further than to the inner shelf at and north of Scoresby Sund. We report new 10Be ages from erratic boulders ... the Kap Brewster peninsula at the mouth of Scoresby Sund. The average 10Be ages, calculated with an assumed ... a period of increased sediment input to the Scoresby Sund fan (19–15 ka). The results presented here ... m a.s.l. at the mouth of Scoresby Sund during the LGM and add to a growing ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2007 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
... Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, Kong Oscar Fjord, and Scoresby Sund) and reconstruct the post‐LGM ice dynamics and ... in all three systems at the LGM. Off Scoresby Sund, it remains unresolved as to whether a mid‐ ... moraines, and most probably into the fjord at Scoresby Sund. Subsequent overriding occurred by ice readvance, probably in ... the mid‐shelf and at the entrance of Scoresby Sund, probably mark the maximum ice‐sheet extent after ... debris indicates that at least one tsunami affected Scoresby Sund at some time in the Holocene.
Tópico(s): Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
2018 - Wiley | Journal of Quaternary Science
Julian A. Dowdeswell, N. H. Kenyon, Jan Sverre Laberg,
... submarine fan (gradient about 2 °) offshore of the Scoresby Sund fjord system is indicated by the crescentic shape ... blocks in the long-term development of the Scoresby Sund Fan. Glacier-influenced fan volume is about 15, ... the inland ice sheet advances to fill the Scoresby Sund fjord system and extends across the shelf to ... in areas of most rapid sediment flux. The Scoresby Sund Fan is relatively similar to the Storfjorden Fan ...
Tópico(s): Cryospheric studies and observations
1997 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
Julian A. Dowdeswell, Gabriele Uenzelmann‐Neben, R J Whittington, Peter Marienfeld,
... in East Greenland. Geophysical and geological investigations in Scoresby Sund were undertaken to characterize the nature and chronology ... 1 . Thicker accumulations of unlithified Quaternary sediments in Scoresby Sund occur as sediment ridges and in two other ... low sediment ridge runs across the mouth of Scoresby Sund, and is interpreted as an end moraine of ... entrance of Vikingebugt, on the south side of Scoresby Sund. Dated kame terraces in the inner fjord system ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
1994 - Wiley | Boreas
Miriam Seifert, Mario Hoppema, Claudia Burau, Cassandra Elmer, Anna Friedrichs, Jana K. Geuer, Uwe John, Torsten Kanzow, Boris Koch, Christian Konrad, Helga van der Jagt, Oliver Zielinski, Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen,
... Maria S. Merian in summer 2016, we visited Scoresby Sund and its northernmost branch, Nordvestfjord. In addition to ... meltwater effects on the outer fjord part of Scoresby Sund are weakened due to its enormous width. We ... 1 compared to the outer fjord part of Scoresby Sund (58 – 82 mmol C m-2 d-1) ... column. By contrast, the outer fjord part of Scoresby Sund showed stronger attenuation of particles due to horizontal ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Marine Science
Jan Sverre Laberg, Tom Arne Rydningen, Matthias Forwick, Katrine Husum,
... 987 drilled on the distal part of the Scoresby Sund TMF on the east Greenland continental margin, which records the former dynamics of the Scoresby Sund sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Based on ... ka (the "Mid-Pleistocene Transition"). On the distal Scoresby Sund TMF, this change appears to be reflected through ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2017 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
... 1) sulphide samples from the region south of Scoresby Sund (Kangerlussuaq igneous complex) have lead characterized by retarded ... 2) sulphide samples from the region north of Scoresby Sund (Werner Bjerge, Kap Simpson and Kap Broer Ruys ... crust. Tertiary magmas in the region south of Scoresby Sund remobilized and incorporated lead from low-μ, high- ... local continental crust. In the region north of Scoresby Sund the Tertiary magmas remobilized moderately radiogenic lead from ...
Tópico(s): Geological Studies and Exploration
1998 - Elsevier BV | Chemical Geology
... marine geological data, it is suggested that thc Scoresby Sund glacier terminated c . 30 km east of Kap ... north and south of the fjord mouth, but Scoresby Sund and Hall Bredning probably remained free of glaciers. ... than shells of the same age within the Scoresby Sund area. This may indicate that the outer coast ...
Tópico(s): Isotope Analysis in Ecology
1994 - Wiley | Boreas
Julian A. Dowdeswell, Whittington, Jennings, Andrews, Andreas Mackensen, Marienfeld,
... in visual core logs and x‐radiographs from Scoresby Sund and Nansen Fjord, east Greenland. They are mostly ... of iceberg delivery of heterogeneous debris and, in Scoresby Sund, reworking by deep‐drafted iceberg keels. The laminated ... Fine‐grained, laminated muds (Fl) were deposited in Scoresby Sund when the flux of icebergs was suppressed, but ... of more open conditions with iceberg rafting. In Scoresby Sund, foraminifera are either absent from the laminated unit ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2000 - Wiley | Sedimentology
Julian A. Dowdeswell, R J Whittington, Peter Marienfeld,
... of 39 m of core material recovered from Scoresby Sund and the adjacent East Greenland shelf is massive ... 1‐0.3 m 1000 yr −1 in Scoresby Sund can be accounted for mainly by iceberg rafting ... from over 30 000 km 2 of the Scoresby Sund fiord system and the adjacent East Greenland shelf ( ...
Tópico(s): Geological Studies and Exploration
1994 - Wiley | Sedimentology
... East Greenland Caledonides. The metamorphic complexes of the Scoresby Sund region preserve evidence of Archaean and Proterozoic orogenic ... less than formerly imagined. The interpretations of the Scoresby Sund region are extended northwards into the classic areas ... developed. A similar development to that of the Scoresby Sund region seems probable, though statements should be treated ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
1976 - Geological Society of London | Journal of the Geological Society
Helena Alexanderson, Lena Håkansson,
... Liverpool Land ice cap situated in the coastal Scoresby Sund region. Previous studies have tentatively correlated these advances ... sets deposited by mountain glaciers in the inner Scoresby Sund region. Recent constraints on the formation of the ... Milne Land Stade moraines described elsewhere in the Scoresby Sund region.Keywords: Greenland; Jameson Land; glaciation; Milne Land ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2014 - Wiley | Polar Research
Svend Funder, Christian Hjort, Jon Y. Landvik,
... uranium series dating. The pre‐Weichselian Lollandselv and Scoresby Sund glaciations were the most extensive. During the Weichselian ... the Inland Ice which advanced through the wide Scoresby Sund basin and reached the inner shelf. In‐between ... the Hugin Sø interstade, stable Polar water dominated Scoresby Sund, and the terrestrial flora suggests summer temperatures 2° ‐ ...
Tópico(s): Polar Research and Ecology
1994 - Wiley | Boreas
Carsten Israelson, Bjørn Buchardt, Svend Funder, H.-W. Hubberten,
... to reconstruct surface water temperature and salinities in Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. The oxygen isotope compositions of Mya ... oxygen isotope composition of the surface waters of Scoresby Sund and that these variations decrease with depth. Analyses ... bivalve shells from the last interglacial show that Scoresby Sund during that time was well circulated and that ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
1994 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Microseismic amplitudes and periods recorded at Scoresby-Sund, Reykjavik, Bergen, and Uppsala in seven different cases from the years 1949–1950 are studied. At all stations the polar air is ... Scandinavia, whereas the source for microseisms recorded at Scoresby-Sund is located over the open ocean within the ... in the Atlantic outside Scandinavia. The microseisms at Scoresby-Sund have a regular, group character; at the other ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
1953 - Wiley | Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
CARSTEN ISRAEISON, Svend Funder, M. Kelly,
The first major Weichselian ice advance in Scoresby Sund, during the Aucellaelv stage, deposited thick till beds along the coast of Jameson Land between > 107 ka and 140 ka. and is correlated ... marine, fluvial and glacigene sediments extending from the Scoresby Sund glaciation (≅Saalian) to the Flakkerhuk stade (Late Weichselian). ...
Tópico(s): Polar Research and Ecology
1994 - Wiley | Boreas
... a general chronology of Quaternary events in the Scoresby Sund region. This summer the work was concentrated on ... comparatively shallow (400-600 m deep) waters of Scoresby Sund and Hall Bredning; on all other sides this ...
Tópico(s): Cryospheric studies and observations
1970 - Geoloical Survey of Denmark and Greenland | Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Rapport
Lotte Melchior Larsen, W.S Watt, M Watt,
... the North Atlantic. In the region stretching from Scoresby Sund southward to 69°N 40 000 km2of basalts ... regions of the North Atlantic volcanic province the Scoresby Sund basalts are similar to basalts from Kangerdlugssuaq, northern ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
1989 - Geoloical Survey of Denmark and Greenland | Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin
Ruediger Stein, Hannes Grobe, H.-W. Hubberten, Peter Marienfeld, Seung-II Nam,
... the East Greenland Continental Slope and Shelf and Scoresby Sund during the latest Pleistocene to Holocene times. These ... major amounts of IRD were trapped in the Scoresby Sund system. In comparison to modern interglacial conditions, surface- ...
Tópico(s): Cryospheric studies and observations
1993 - Springer Science+Business Media | Geo-Marine Letters
... carried out in the inner part of the Scoresby Sund fjord complex in an area extending from Rypefjord ... The rock types in this part of the Scoresby Sund area are mainly crystalline rocks of Caledonian and ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
1971 - Geoloical Survey of Denmark and Greenland | Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Rapport
... Il decrit le mode d'observation utilise au Scoresby Sund pendant l'Annee Polaire. Une veille continue, effectuee ... decrit la variation diurne tres accentuee, observee au Scoresby Sund et l'interprete par un deplacement geographique de ... aurore a ete un phenomene quasi-permanent au Scoresby Sund, en un lieu interieur a la zone aurorale. ... la zone aurorale. L'auteur a etabli au Scoresby Sund un enregistreur photoelectrique des aurores. Il expose theoriquement ...
Tópico(s): Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
1934 - EDP Sciences | Journal de Physique
... basalts were suspected to occur at Kap Brewster, Scoresby Sund, since W. Scoresby's expedition brought back pieces of charcoal, and ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
1972 - Geoloical Survey of Denmark and Greenland | Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Rapport
Julian A. Dowdeswell, Christine L. Batchelor, K. Hogan, Hans-Werner Schenke,
... wider and shallower Hall Bredning, part of the Scoresby Sund fjord system in East Greenland (Fig. 1b) (Dowdeswell ... Greenland is about 300 km (Fig. 1b), making Scoresby Sund the largest fjord system in the world at ... Maximum (Dowdeswell et al. 1994 a ). Deglaciation of Scoresby Sund began about 16 …
Tópico(s): Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
2016 - Zoological Society of London | Geological Society London Memoirs
Lena Adrielsson, Helena Alexanderson,
... and glaciations to the glacial history of the Scoresby Sund fjord area. A western extension of a coastal ... Land reached eastern Jameson Land during the early Scoresby Sund glaciation (≈the Saalian). During the following glacial maximum ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
2005 - Wiley | Journal of Quaternary Science
Per Möller, Christian Hjort, Lena Adrielsson, Otto Salvigsen,
... extensive glaciers channelled from the west through the Scoresby Sund basin. The Jameson Land Drift deposits have bccn ... isotope stages 8 6). The deposits from the Scoresby Sund glaciation are interpreted as representing a complete glaciation ...
Tópico(s): Climate change and permafrost
1994 - Wiley | Boreas
K. Linthout, S.R. Troelstra, A. Kuijpers,
... is from areas adjoining Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Blosseville Kyst, Scoresby Sund, Kong Oskar Fjord, and Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord. ... day iceberg production is mainly concentrated to the Scoresby Sund, but the other areas apparently represent locations of ...
Tópico(s): Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
2000 - Cambridge University Press | Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw
Brent M. Goehring, M. A. Kelly, Joerg M. Schaefer, Robert C. Finkel, Thomas V. Lowell,
... ages from an ice‐contact delta in northern Scoresby Sund show scatter typical of polar regions and yield ... ages from a set of moraines in southern Scoresby Sund show excellent internal consistency for polar regions and ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
2010 - Wiley | Journal of Quaternary Science