The Late Weichselian and Holocene shoreline displacement on the west-central coast of Svalbard |
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| Authors: | JON Y LANDVIK JON Y LANDVIK OTTO SALVIGSEN |
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| Institution: | Jon Y. Landvik &Jan Mangerud, Department of Geology, Section B, University of Bergen, Allegt. 41, N-5007 Bergen, Norway;Otto Salvigsen, Norsk Polarinstitutt, Rolfstangveien 12, N-1330 Oslo Luft-havn, Norway;October 1986. |
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| Abstract: | Three well-developed raised marine shorelines along Nordenskioldkysten have been studied and correlated with the shoreline displacement since the last deglaciation. The marine limit of 64 m in the area is of Late Weichselian age and has been dated to 10, 900- 11, 000 years B.P. An intermediate level at 50 m is estimated to be 10, 600-10, 000 years old and demonstrates a sea level stagnation probably caused by a glacier readvance in eastern Svalbard during the Younger Dryas. A Holocene transgression culminating shortly after 6, 000 years B.P. has been stratigraphically demonstrated, and it probably correlates with the Tapes transgression of Scandinavia. No pre-Late Weichselian marine levels are found, and the large rebound can be attributed only to a Late Weichselian glaciation. |
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