TY - JOUR N2 - The current climate warming results in a quick recession of glaciers on the northern slopes and valleys of the Lindströmfjellet-Hĺbergnuten mountain ridge in Nordenskiöld Land. The equilibrium line altitude has risen from c. 500-550 m in 1936 to c.750 m in 2001 and c. 800 m in 2006. The slopes, almost completely glaciated during the Little Ice Age, and even in 1936, have mostly been abandoned by glaciers afterwards. The upper parts of the glaciers undergo a clear retreat diminishing their accumulative (firn) fields. The lower parts of the active glacial tongues have been transformed into marginal zones built of dead ice covered with morainic and glacifluvial deposits. The surfaces of the marginal zones are progressively lowered due to ablation of dead ice. The state of the described glaciers is not balanced under the current climatic conditions. Thus, the landscape transformation of the mountain ridge will most certainly continue. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110601/PDF-MASTER/PPR28-237.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110601 PY - 2007 IS - No 4 EP - 247 KW - Arctic KW - Spitsbergen KW - climate warming KW - glacial recession KW - landscape transformation A1 - Ziaja, Wiesław A1 - Pipała, Robert PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research DA - 2007 T1 - Glacial recession 2001-2006 and its landscape effects in the Lindströmfjellet-Hĺbergnuten mountain ridge, Nordenskiöld Land, Spitsbergen SP - 237 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110601 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -