Reconstruction of the deglaciation history, the coastal development, and environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in the Nordre Stromfjord region, West Greenland

计划中的项目与2007年夏天前往西格陵兰岛的R/V“玛丽亚·S·梅里安”探险队的工作方案和目标密切相关。R/V“Maria S.Merian”探险队的工作计划集中在峡湾和陆架的地震剖面、海洋沉积岩芯的收集和沿西-东断面的陆上大地测量，以重建晚更新世和全新世的冰川消融历史、海岸发育和环境变化。在这里申请的项目范围内，R/V“Maria S.Merian”探险队的工作计划将通过与丹麦和格陵兰地质调查局(GEUS，丹麦)和达勒姆大学(英国)合作的陆上活动来扩展。计划的陆上活动的主要目标是沿外、中和内诺德尔斯特罗姆峡湾的海拔横断面收集湖泊沉积物序列，以补充海洋地质调查获得的信息。因此，可以更好地了解冰运动的区域模式、相对海平面变化、气候演变以及相关原因。

The planned project is closely affiliated to the working program and targets of the R/V “Maria S. Merian” expedition to West Greenland in the summer 2007. The work program of the R/V “Maria S. Merian” expedition focuses on seismic profiling in the fjords and on the shelf, collection of marine sediment cores, and onshore geodetic measurements along a west-east transect in order to reconstruct the deglaciation history, the coastal development, and environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within the scope of the project applied for here the working program of the R/V “Maria S. Merian” expedition shall be extended by onshore activities in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS, Denmark) and the University of Durham (UK). The main objective of the planned onshore activities is the collection of lake sediment sequences along altitude transects in outer, central, and inner Nordre Strømfjord in order to complement the information obtained by the marine geological investigations. Thus, a better understanding of the regional pattern of ice movements, relative sea-level changes, and climate evolution, and of the related reasons, can be achieved.