Open AccessNeotectonics, sea‐level changes and biological evolution in the Fennoscandian Border Zone of the southern Kattegat Sea
Author(s) -
JENSEN JØRN BO,
PETERSEN KAJ STRAND,
KONRADI PETER,
KUIJPERS ANTOON,
BENNIKE OLE,
LEMKE WOLFRAM,
ENDLER RUDOLF
Publication year - 2002
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.1502-3885.2002.tb01062.x
Subject(s) - geology , deglaciation , sea level , tectonics , neotectonics , paleontology , post glacial rebound , tectonic uplift , fault (geology) , quaternary , period (music) , preboreal , holocene , oceanography , younger dryas , physics , acoustics
Shallow seismic data and vibrocore information, sequence stratigraphic and faunal evidence have been used for documentation of Late Weichselian reactivation of faulting in the south central Kattegat, southern Scandinavia. The study area is situated on the Fennoscandian Border Zone, where tectonic activity has been recurrent since Early Palaeozoic time and still occurs, as shown by present earthquake activity. New data from the area south of the island of Anholt show that after deglaciation fast isostatic rebound resulted in reactivation of a NW‐SE striking normal fault system. This tectonic episode is dated to a period starting shortly before 15.0 cal. ka BP and ending around 13.5 cal. ka BP, after regression had already reached a level of about 30 m b.s.l. The vertical displacement associated with the faulting was in the order of 20 m. More generally, the results support the previously reported late Weichselian sea‐level highstand, which was followed by forced regression until the eustatic sea‐level rise surpassed the rate of glacio‐isostatic rebound in early Preboreal. Our findings further imply that drainage of the Baltic Ice Lake through the Øresund at c. 15 cal. ka BP (Bergsten & Nordberg 1992) may have been triggered by tectonic activity in this region.