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Late Quaternary Sediments and Stratigraphy on the Continental Shelf off Troms and West Finnmark, Northern Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Tore O. Vorren ,
Inger F. Strass  and
Odd W. Lind-Hansen
Tore O. Vorren
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, Box 790, 9001 Tromsø, Norway
Inger F. Strass
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, Box 790, 9001 Tromsø, Norway
Odd W. Lind-Hansen
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, Box 790, 9001 Tromsø, Norway
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Abstract

Lithologic, paleontologic, and chronostratigraphic investigation of 13 gravity cores indicates the following environmental evolution: a high- (mid-) arctic period with a slight influx of ice-rafted debris occurred during the early middle Weichselian followed by a mid- (high-) arctic environment with a high influx of iceberg-rafted debris during the remainder of the middle Weichselian. The continental ice sheet probably did not extend beyond the inner shelf during middle Weichselian and a minimum relative sea level was ca. −120 m. A low-arctic environment occurred during (parts of) the late Weichselian with an initial winnowing of the sediments. The Norwegian Current entered the area during this substage. A high- (mid-) boreal environment occurred during the Holocene with high winnowing activity in the early Holocene. Winnowing is still very active on the shallower banks in contrast to the deeper banks where it has ceased. Relatively high percentages of carbonate in the form of biogenic skeletal remains occur in the Holocene sediments.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 1978 , pp. 340 - 365
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University of Washington

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