Old mountains on Svalbard

Anne Hormes

Sky4geo, Innsbruck, Austria

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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.

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Europe Northern Europe Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Show on map

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Credit: Anne Hormes (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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Type Image Format JPG Size 829.0 KB Width 3872 px Height 2592 px Aspect 121:81 Brand Nikon Model D80 Exposure 11 mm f/11 1/500 s ISO 160 Taken 28 April 2008 Coordinates 79.6264, 12.0442 Tint Light purplish gray Submitted 30 January 2018