Open AccessThe Kapp Ekholm section, Billefjorden, Spitsbergen: a discussion
Author(s) -
MANGERUD JAN,
SALVIGSEN OTTO
Publication year - 1984
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.1502-3885.1984.tb00068.x
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , geology , section (typography) , stage (stratigraphy) , glacial period , paleontology , archaeology , physical geography , geography , advertising , business
A radiocarbon date of 46,300 was obtained on shells in living position above the till exposed near Kapp Ekholm that G. S. Boulton (1979) dated at younger than 11,000 years B.P., his Billefjorden Stage, and which he assumed represented the Late Weichselian glacial maximum. According to a correlation of earlier published descriptions, J. A. Lavrushin (1969) had previously obtained similar ‘old’ dates, while L. S. Troitsky et al. (1979) obtained TL‐dates of 47,000 and 53,000 above this till. These dates require a reassessment of the timing of the Billefjorden Stage.