Open AccessWeichselian sediments containing redeposited interstadialhnterglacial fossils at Slettaelva, North Norway
Author(s) -
VORREN TORE O.,
CORNER GEOFFREY D.,
NAGY JENÖ
Publication year - 1981
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.1502-3885.1981.tb00511.x
Subject(s) - eemian , geology , stadial , foraminifera , paleontology , stratigraphy , tundra , stratigraphic unit , glacial period , structural basin , oceanography , arctic , benthic zone , interglacial , tectonics
The following stratigraphy was found at Slettaelva, near Tromso̊ (from bottom to top): greenish basal till (unit A), laminated c lay (unit B), fossitiferous basal till (Unit C). Unit A probably derives from an early Weichselin local glaciation, Unit B comprises lacustrine sediments which were apparently deposited in an early Weichselian tundra‐like enivironment, Unit C, which contains reworked fossils of moulluscs, palynomorphs and foraminifera, was deposited by a continenntal ice shcet. Amino acid ratios of Mya truncata and plaaeontological evidence indicate that unit Ccontains a mixed fossil assemblage, probably of Eemian and Weichselian interstadial age.