Hans Tausen Ice Cap
Hans Tausen Ice Cap | |
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Hans Tausens Iskappe | |
Location within Greenland | |
Type | Ice cap |
Location | Greenland |
Coordinates | 82°30′N 37°30′W / 82.500°N 37.500°WCoordinates: 82°30′N 37°30′W / 82.500°N 37.500°W |
Area | ca 4,000 km2 |
Length | 100 km |
Width | 80 km |
Thickness | max 600 m |
Status | The future development of the ice cap is highly dependent upon summer temperatures.[1] |
Hans Tausen Ice Cap (Danish: Hans Tausens Iskappe) is an ice cap in Peary Land, northern Greenland. Ice cores show it is around 3500–4000 years old. It formed since the Holocene climatic optimum of 6000-8000 BP.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Geography[]
The ice cap is located south of the De Long Fjord area and east of Freuchen Land, across the inner J.P. Koch Fjord, and west of Odin Fjord.[8] It is about 100 km from north to south and 80 km from east to west and sits on a 1300 m high plateau.
The Hans Tausen Ice Cap is the source of many glaciers, including , and the .[9] It is a well studied ice cap, and is important to understanding the Holocene climatic optimum.[10]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Paper on ice flow PDF
- ^ Hans Tausen Iskappe, North Greenland - Studies using an ice flow model
- ^ Madsen, K. N.; Thorsteinsson, Th (2001). "Textures, fabrics and meltlayer stratigraphy in the Hans Tausen ice core, North Greenland - indications of late Holocene ice cap genration? In: (U.C. Hammer, ed.) the Hans Tausen Ice Cap Glaciology and Glacial Geology". Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience. 39: 97–114.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Möller, Per; Larsen, Nicolaj K.; Kjær, Kurt H.; Funder, Svend; Schomacker, Anders; Linge, Henriette; Fabel, Derek (2010). "Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland". Quaternary Science Reviews. 29 (25–26): 3379–3398. Bibcode:2010QSRv...29.3379M. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.044.
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jon_Landvik/publication/230709679_The_glacial_history_of_the_Hans_Tausen_Iskappe_and_the_last_glaciation_of_Peary_Land_North_Greenland/links/0fcfd50e0335f57e48000000.pdf
- ^ http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/EGU2015-1540.pdf
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ http://travelingluck.com/North+America/Greenland/Nordgr%C3%B8nland/_3423569_Hans+Tausen+Iskappe.html#local_map
- ^ Landvik et al 2001
Categories:
- Ice caps of Greenland
- Landforms of North America