TY - JOUR N2 - Marine rock-accumulative terraces at 2-230 m a.s.l. in the southern Sörkapp Land are typical for glacioisostaticly uplifted areas. The Holocene terraces reach up to 19 m a.s.l. An outstanding coastal ridge at 9-10 m a.s.l. was radiocarbon-dated at 6580±160 years B.P. No marine transgression during the Holocene on higher and older terraces was noted, what is also confirmed by well preserved raised storm ridges. Any of glacial advances during the Holocene were more extensive than the one of the Little Ice Age. However the Pleistocene glaciations were more extensive. Among glacial landforms in the area there are: ice-cored frontal and lateral moraines up to 70 m high, plains of ground, ablation and fluted moraines, complexes of glaciofluvial fans. The glaciers retreated 0.3-2 km since 1936 i.e. ca 10 m a year on the average. There are large consequent structural landslides on eastern slopes of Keilhaufjellet. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/111065/PDF-MASTER/1993-3_293-308.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/111065 PY - 1993 IS - No 3 EP - 308 KW - Arctic KW - Spitsbergen KW - Quaternary KW - landscape KW - marine terraces KW - glaciers A1 - Wójcik, Antoni A1 - Ziaja, Wiesław PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 14 DA - 1993 T1 - Relief and Quaternaryof the southern Sörkapp Land, Spitsbergen SP - 293 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111065 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -