@ARTICLE{Gibas_Justyna_Application_2005, author={Gibas, Justyna and Rachlewicz, Grzegorz and Szczuciński, Witold}, volume={vol. 26}, number={No 4}, journal={Polish Polar Research}, pages={239-258}, howpublished={online}, year={2005}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Committee on Polar Research}, abstract={DC resistivity soundings and geomorphological surveys have been carried out in the marginal zones and adjacent outwash plains of two glaciers in central Spitsbergen, Norwegian Arctic: Ebbabreen and Hörbyebreen. The study has revealed complex relationships between landforms, buried glacier ice and permafrost. From this work it is possible to distinguish between moraine ridges which are ice-cored and those which are not. The latter occur in areas which have possibly been affected by glacier surge. The active layer thickness was found to be 0.4 to 2.5 m for diamicton deposits (moraines) and 0.3 to 1.6 m in outwash glacifluvial sediments. The sediment infill thickness in valleys was determined to be as much as 20 m, thereby demonstrating that sandurs have important role in sediment storage in a glacial system. Typical resistivity values for sediment types in both the active layer and in permafrost were also determined.}, type={Article}, title={Application of DC resistivity soundings and geomorphological surveys in studies of modern Arctic glacier marginal zones, Petuniabukta, Spitsbergen}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/110638/PDF-MASTER/ppr26-239.pdf}, keywords={Arctic, Spitsbergen, DC resistivity sounding, permafrost, glacial geomorphology}, }