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Holocene Relative Sea-Level History of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, and Implications for Late Weichselian Ice-Sheet Loading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

JaapJan Zeeberg ,
David J. Lubinski  and
Steven L. Forman
JaapJan Zeeberg
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (M/C 186), University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60607-7059,jzeebe1@uic.edu
David J. Lubinski
Affiliation:
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), 1560 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80303
Steven L. Forman
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (M/C 186), University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60607-7059
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Abstract

We present six new radiocarbon-dated emergence curves that provide a detailed record of postglacial emergence of northern Novaya Zemlya and ages which constrain the emergence of Vaygach Island in the southern archipelago. Radiocarbon ages on Hiatella sp. from a lateral moraine in Russkaya Gavan' and abundances of foraminifea in a marine core from Nordenskiold Bay, 300 km south of our study area, indicate that coastal deglaciation occurred prior to ∼10,000 cal yr B.P. However, postglacial emergence commenced ∼7000 cal yr B.P., with stabilization of global sea level. The total emergence is 13–11 m above sea level (asl) with apparent uplift rates of 1–2 mm/yr for the past 2000 yr, indicating modest glacier loads (<1 km), early (>11,000 cal yr B.P.) deglaciation, or both. The isobase pattern, showing no east–west tilt across Novaya Zemlya, and offshore moraines suggest a separate ice-dispersal center over Novaya Zemlya for the later stages of the Late Weichselian glacial cycle and possibly earlier.

Keywords

glacio-isostasyraised beachesNovaya ZemlyadeglaciationBarents Sea ice sheet
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , September 2001 , pp. 218 - 230
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University of Washington

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