The glacial geomorphology of Kola Peninsula and adjacent areas in the Murmansk Region, Russia
The glacial geomorphology of Kola Peninsula and adjacent areas in the Murmansk Region, Russia
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俄罗斯摩尔曼斯克州科拉半岛及邻近地区冰川地貌
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2006
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C. Clark
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C. Hättestrand;C. Clark
Abstract Please click here to download the map associated with this article. A map of the glacial geomorphology of Kola Peninsula and adjacent areas in the Murmansk region, northwestern Russia, is presented. The primary data source for identification and classification of landforms has been Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) satellite images, and aerial photograph interpretation and field work in selected areas. The map, at the scale 1:900,000, consists of over 20,000 landforms pertaining to the Quaternary glacial activity, considerably improving existing knowledge of this area. The landform types that have been mapped are glacial lineations, ribbed moraine, end moraines, end moraine complexes, hummocky moraine, eskers, glaciouvial accumulations, lateral meltwater channels, large meltwater channels, very large meltwater channels, and relict shorelines. The distribution of landforms shows large variations. The central part of the peninsula lacks signs of glacial activity, apart from abundant lateral meltwater channels. In the rest of the area glacial lineations (drumlins, utes, crag-and-tails) are the dominant landform type. The largest glacial landform system in the area is an ice marginal system running parallel to the southern and eastern coast of Kola Peninsula. This ice marginal system, the Keiva moraine complex, has in part been overrun and drumlinised by ice ow from the southwest. This indicates that this ice marginal belt was deposited before the last major ice expansion. The map presented will be used as the main source of data for a new reconstruction of glacial events in the eastern part of the Fennoscandian ice sheet area.