TY - JOUR N2 - Complex analysis ofgeomorphological glacial processes in forefields of retreating glaciers in the southern Bellsund region was undertaken. Field studies and archival cartographic materials indicate continued glacial retreat, at least since the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its average present rate of about 20 m/y is rather high and no moraine ridges are formed, except for the fluted moraines. Forefields of large glaciers are characterized by typical relief and sediments of frontal deglaciation only. Intensity and extent of glacial forefield remodelling depends mainly on activity ablation waters. At present glaciofluvial erosion predominates. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110951/PDF-MASTER/1996-1-2_061-084.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110951 PY - 1996 IS - No 1-2 EP - 84 KW - Arctic KW - Spitsbergen KW - glacial geomorphological processes A1 - Reder, Jan PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 17 DA - 1996 T1 - Evolution of marginal zones during continued glacial retreat in northwestern Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen SP - 61 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110951 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -