Open AccessThe marine Quaternary in Denmark: a review of new evidence from glacial-interglacial studies
Author(s) -
Karen Luise Knudsen
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
bulletin of the geological society of denmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.674
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2245-7070
pISSN - 0011-6297
DOI - 10.37570/bgsd-1995-41-17
Subject(s) - eemian , quaternary , interglacial , geology , glacial period , fluvial , paleontology , sequence (biology) , holocene , quaternary science , pleistocene , geomorphology , structural basin , biology , genetics
The marine Quaternary of the onshore areas in Denmark is restricted to deposits from the Middle and the Late Quaternary. Selected marine glacial-interglacial paleoenvironmental reconstructions from this sequence are reviewed with special emphasis on relatively recent studies. In addition, an outline of the stratigraphy of the Skagen 3 borehole is given for the first time. The Quaternary at Skagen has a total thickness of almost 200 m. A lower about 7 m thick marine Saalian-Eemian-Early Weichselian sequence (between ea. 185 and 178 m depth in the core) is succeeded by a fluvial deposit (178-132 m) and an apparently continuous extremely thick marine Late Weichselian and Holocene sequence (from 132 m depth to the top of the core).