Proglacial lake sediment records of Holocene mountain glacier change on the Nuussuaq Peninsula, West Greenland: Initial results

Authors

Avriel Schweinsberg¹ , Jason Briner² , Joseph Licciardi¹ , Ole Bennike³

1. University of New Hampshire
2. University at Buffalo
3. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Conference / event

47th Annual Arctic Workshop, March 2017 (Buffalo, NY, United States)

Poster summary

This poster presents the initial results of an ongoing project reconstructing local glacier fluctuations in West Greenland using a multi-proxy approach. High-resolution chronologies of Holocene mountain glacier variability are presented. This work contributes to identifying regional patterns of North Atlantic climate variability, especially events during the late Holocene.

Keywords

Little Ice Age, proglacial lake sediment, deglaciation, North Atlantic

Research areas

Earth Sciences

References

1. Balascio, N.L., D’Andrea, W.J., and Bradley, R.S., 2015, Glacier response to North Atlantic climate variability during the Holocene: Climate of the Past 11, 2009–2036.
2. Briner, J.P., et al., 2016, Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland: Quaternary Science Reviews 147, 340–364.
3. Kelly, M.A., and Lowell, T.V., 2009, Fluctuations of local glaciers in Greenland during latest Pleistocene and Holocene time: Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2088 2106.
4. Schweinsberg, A.D., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Bennike, O., and Thomas, E.K., 2017, Local glaciation in West Greenland linked to North Atlantic Ocean circulation during the Holocene: Geology 45, 195-198.
5. Young, N.E., Schweinsberg, A.D., Briner, J.P., Schaefer, J.M., 2015, Glacier maxima coeval with Norse settlement in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period: Science Advances 1, 1-8.

Funding

1. National Geographic

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2022 Schweinsberg et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.