Thanks to the new Bing satellite imagery, we can see extraordinary detail in Kjove land, East Greenland -- tha area dealt with in some previous posts. Note the huge lateral moraine running along the mountainside to the east of the Holger Danskes Briller ice contact delta. I have marked the key features on the above image. In 1962 we were unable to examine this area in detail, as we had our work cut out in the examinations and analysis of the Gurreholmsdal raised delta complex a few km to the east. Anyway, the moraine has a series of cosmogenic dates reported in the recent paper by Kelly et al, ranging from c 15,000 yrs BP to c 12,000 yrs BP. So the moraine is assigned to the "older moraine complex" roughly coinciding with Zone I or Older Dryas in the old terminology.
The diffluent glacier snout was grounded for at least 4 km to the east iof the trough exit, and must have been afloat in the Nordostbugt area. The 134m shoreline is traceable downslope of the morainic ridge, but its precise relationship with raised marine deposits is still to be determined.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109531
PS. The eastern lake of the Holger Danskes Briller is now named Margaret Lambert Sø. You can see the eastern edge of the lake in the image above.
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