Old mountains on Svalbard
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Old mountains on Svalbard

by Anne Hormes, Sky4geo, Innsbruck, Austria

10 years anniversary of the icebound project on Svalbard
Sampling campaigns for cosmogenic nuclide dating to constrain the ages of the highest mountain peaks in the European Arctic.
Gjermundsen, E. F., Briner, J. P., Akcar, N., Foros, J., Kubik, P. W., Salvigsen, O., and Hormes, A., 2015, Minimal erosion of Arctic alpine topography during late Quaternary glaciation: Nature Geoscience, v. 8.