Abstract
Storoya is a 50 km2 large island in northeastern Svalbard. Its southern half is covered by a cold-based ice cap, while the remaining part (22 km2) is non-glacierized. Most of the latter area is covered with regolith. The marine limit was found at 66 m a.s.l. Above this elevation the regolith has a non-washed character but still contains rounded boulders of the same type as below the marine limit. As many of these rounded boulders are made of metamorphic or red magmatic rocks found on Nordaustlandet, while the bedrock of Storoya is gabbro and quartz diorite, the regolith is considered to be old beach material transported as till to the
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