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SUBMITTER: van der Bilt WGM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6810458 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Bilt Willem G M WGM Lane Christine S CS
Science advances 20191023 10
Lake sediments retrieved from the beds of former nonerosive ice sheets offer unique possibilities to constrain changes in the extent and style of past glaciation, and place them in an absolutely dated context. We present the first pre-Holocene lake sediments from Arctic Svalbard. Radiocarbon dating of terrestrial plant fossils reveals that the investigated catchment was unglaciated and vegetated between 30 and 20 ka B.P. during the global Last Glacial Maximum. The presence of volcanic ash from a ...[more]