@article{EgholmJansenBraedstrupetal.2017, author = {Egholm, David L. and Jansen, John D. and Braedstrup, Christian F. and Pedersen, Vivi K. and Andersen, Jane Lund and Ugelvig, Sofie V. and Larsen, Nicolaj K. and Knudsen, Mads F.}, title = {Formation of plateau landscapes on glaciated continental margins}, series = {Nature geoscience}, volume = {10}, journal = {Nature geoscience}, publisher = {Nature Publ. Group}, address = {New York}, issn = {1752-0894}, doi = {10.1038/NGEO2980}, pages = {592 -- +}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Low-relief plateaus separated by deeply incised fjords are hallmarks of glaciated, passive continental margins. Spectacular examples fringe the once ice-covered North Atlantic coasts of Greenland, Norway and Canada, but low-relief plateau landscapes also underlie present-day ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. Dissected plateaus have long been viewed as the outcome of selective linear erosion by ice sheets that focus incision in glacial troughs, leaving the intervening landscapes essentially unaffected. According to this hypothesis, the plateaus are remnants of preglacial low-relief topography. However, here we use computational experiments to show that, like fjords, plateaus are emergent properties of long-term ice-sheet erosion. Ice sheets can either increase or decrease subglacial relief depending on the wavelength of the underlying topography, and plateau topography arises dynamically from evolving feedbacks between topography, ice dynamics and erosion over million-year timescales. This new mechanistic explanation for plateau formation opens the possibility of plateaus contributing significantly to accelerated sediment flux at the onset of the late Cenozoic glaciations, before becoming stable later in the Quaternary.}, language = {en} } @article{StrunkKnudsenEgholmetal.2017, author = {Strunk, Astrid and Knudsen, Mads Faurschou and Egholm, David L. and Jansen, John D. and Levy, Laura B. and Jacobsen, Bo H. and Larsen, Nicolaj K.}, title = {One million years of glaciation and denudation history in west Greenland}, series = {Nature Communications}, volume = {8}, journal = {Nature Communications}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK}, address = {London}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {10.1038/ncomms14199}, pages = {8}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The influence of major Quaternary climatic changes on growth and decay of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and associated erosional impact on the landscapes, is virtually unknown beyond the last deglaciation. Here we quantify exposure and denudation histories in west Greenland by applying a novel Markov-Chain Monte Carlo modelling approach to all available paired cosmogenic Be-10-Al-26 bedrock data from Greenland. We find that long-term denudation rates in west Greenland range from >50 m Myr(-1) in low-lying areas to similar to 2 m Myr(-1) at high elevations, hereby quantifying systematic variations in denudation rate among different glacial landforms caused by variations in ice thickness across the landscape. We furthermore show that the present day ice-free areas only were ice covered ca. 45\% of the past 1 million years, and even less at high-elevation sites, implying that the Greenland Ice Sheet for much of the time was of similar size or even smaller than today.}, language = {en} } @article{JansenBuschmannWegoetal.2001, author = {Jansen, K. and Buschmann, Hans-J{\"u}rgen and Wego, A. and Dopp, D. and Mayer, C. and Holdt, Hans-Joachim and Schollmeyer, E.}, title = {Curcubit[5]uril, decamethylcururbit[5]uril and curcurbit[6]uril : synthesis, solubility and amin complex formation}, year = {2001}, abstract = {A simple way to prepare cucurbit[5]uril is described. The macrocycles of the cucurbituril type are nearly insoluble in water. The solubilities of cucurbit[5]uril, decamethylcucurbit[5]uril and cucurbit[6]uril in hydrochloric acid, formic acid and acetic acid of different concentrations have been investigated. Due to the formation of complexes between cucurbit[n]urils and protons the solubility increases in aqueous acids. The macrocyclic ligands are able to form complexes with several organic compounds. Thus, the complex formation of the cucurbituril macrocycles with different amines has beenstudied by means of calorimetric titrations. The reaction enthalpy gives noevidence of the formation of inclusion or exclusion complexes. 1H-NMR measurements show that in the case of cucurbit[5]uril and cucurbit[6]uril the organic guest compound is included within the hydrophobic cavity. Decamethylcucurbit[5]uril forms only exclusion complexes with organicamines. This was confirmed by the crystal structure of the decamethylcucurbit[5]uril-1,6- diaminohexane complex. complex formation - cucurbit[5]uril - cucurbit[6]uril - decamethylcucurbit[5]uril - solubility - synthesis}, language = {en} }