Note on a clay deposit at Pienempi Kuivajärvi, Finnish Lapland

A clay deposit occurring on the eastern side of Pienempi Kuivajärvi , southeast of Ivalo, is described. The clay was accumulated in a proglacial lake. Mineralogical analysis indicates a mineral content not closely similar to those found earlier in Finnish argillaceous sediments and shows a derivation f rom local granulitic bedrock. Most if not all of the pollen and diatoms are reworked. The pollen spectra include elements which may have originated f rom Eemian deposits. The diatom flora consists of f reshwater small-lake forms.