Open AccessA Late Pleistocene sequence at Seitevare, Swedish Lapland
Author(s) -
ROBERTSSON ANNMARIE,
RODHE LARS
Publication year - 1988
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.1502-3885.1988.tb00564.x
Subject(s) - eemian , stadial , geology , pleistocene , pollen , interglacial , glacial period , vegetation (pathology) , peat , lithostratigraphy , alder , paleontology , physical geography , structural basin , archaeology , ecology , geography , medicine , pathology , biology
A peat layer beneath two till beds was found at Seitevare in Swedish Lapland. The pollen flora layer indicates deposition during the later part of the Eemian Interglacial. The vegetation consisted of open forests predominated by pine and birch, mixed with alder and spruce. The sedimentation took place in a small oligotrophic‐dystrophic water basin with a pH about 5, according to the diatom flora. In an adjacent section, silty sediments with pollen indicating interstadial vegetation (birches, herbs) are covered by one till bed. These sediments are tentatively correlated with the Peräpohjola Interstadial in northern Finland and north‐eastern Sweden. The lithostratigraphy indicates one pre‐Eemian and probably three Weichselian glacial advances.