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Russian Settlement and Land Rise in Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen

Author(s) -

Weston Blake

Publication year - 1961

Publication title -

arctic

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503

H-Index - 59

eISSN - 1923-1245

pISSN - 0004-0843

DOI - 10.14430/arctic3666

Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , shore , settlement (finance) , glacier , geology , physical geography , sea level , archaeology , geography , oceanography , world wide web , computer science , payment

Presents evidence of stable shoreline in the Murchisonfjorden region from 1957-1958 studies of a Russian hunting hut on Nordre Russoya. Age of the hut is determined as at least 100 years from settlement records and radiocarbon dating. It is located only 1.2 m above high-tide level and 0.8 m above the highest tides; hence the land has risen less than one meter in the past century. Any uplift that is occurring is probably balanced by the rise in sea level from glacier shrinkage.

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