Subglacial erosional landforms and their relevance for the long-term safety of a radioactive waste repository
Subglacial erosional landforms and their relevance for the long-term safety of a radioactive waste repository
Editor(s): Jörg Lang, Anke Bebiolka, Sonja Breuer, and Maximilian Pfaff
The formation of tunnel valleys and other subglacial erosional landforms is among the deepest-reaching erosional processes. Such deep erosion during potential future ice ages could seriously affect the integrity of the geological barrier of a radioactive waste repository. To address the topic of subglacial erosion and its relevance for the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories, a 2 d virtual workshop was organized by BGR (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources) and BGE (Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal) in December 2021. As a follow-up, this special issue aims to collect studies on all aspects of subglacial erosion and its treatment with regard to site selection and the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories.

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17 May 2023
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06 Mar 2023
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E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 73–76, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-73-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-73-2023, 2023
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20 Jan 2023
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E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 72, 23–36, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-23-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-23-2023, 2023
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22 Dec 2022
Tunnel valleys in the southeastern North Sea: more data, more complexity
Arne Lohrberg, Jens Schneider von Deimling, Henrik Grob, Kai-Frederik Lenz, and Sebastian Krastel
E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 267–274, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-267-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-267-2022, 2022
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