TY - JOUR N2 - The Hoglandvatnet and Ålandvatnet are genetically associated with the action of a large ice stream issuing from Mittag-Lefflerbreen towards Lomonosovfonna as far nortwards as Austfjorden. The accomplished investigations permit water properties to be described for Hoglandvatnet and Ålandvatnet, as well as the chemical composition of the basin waters to be correlated with lithologic diversity of the surrounding massifs and the composition of glacier water feeding them. Water of Hoglandvatnet has a rather uniform ion composition. It is sulphate-calcium water. Low mineral contents of glacier water and that flowing through crystalline rocks of Framstaken and feeding the basin result in its less marked effect on the Hoglandvatnet water, compared with highly mineralized water of streams issuing from Trikolorfjellet and Tarantellen. Water of Ålandvatnet has a somewhat different quantitative ion composition than that of Hoglandvatnet. It is calcium-sulphate-bicarbonate water which is richer in the bicarbonate ion than the Hoglandvatnet waters. This is most likely due to the influence of bicarbonate water of Ålandelva and glacier water feeding the basin. It can also be the result of a smaller contribution from highly mineralized calcium-sulphate water issuing from Trikolorfjellet. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111238/PDF-MASTER/1989_3_429-442.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111238 PY - 1989 IS - No 3 EP - 442 KW - Arctic KW - Spitsbergen KW - lake water chemistry A1 - Stankowska, Anna PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 10 DA - 1989 T1 - Geochemical characteristics of Hoglandvatnet and Alandvatnet, central Spitsbergen SP - 429 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111238 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -