Open AccessThe deglaciation of Norway after 10,000 B.P.
Author(s) -
ANDERSEN BJØRN G.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1980.tb00697.x
Subject(s) - deglaciation , preboreal , radiocarbon dating , geology , glacier , quaternary , southern hemisphere , northern hemisphere , moraine , physical geography , holocene , oceanography , paleontology , climatology , younger dryas , geography
Several distinctive marginal moraines of Preboreal age have been observed in Norway. They are grouped into three major morainal zones that are radiocarbon dated at about 9900±100, 9600±100 and 9300±100 B.P. respectively. The following deglaciation of central Norway was rapid and most likely completed about 8500 B.P. Evidence of glacier fluctuations up to recent time is discussed. The results are based partly on observations by the field parties of the I.G.C.P. project ‘Quaternary Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere’.