The Quaternary History of Scandinavia [Paperback]

This text describes how the repeated glaciation of northern continental Europe affected Scandinavia and its surrounding areas.With a particular emphasis on the four countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, this text describes how repeated glaciation, and intervening warmer stages, affected Scandinavia and its surrounding areas, focusing on the Late Weicheslian period as well as the Holocene.With a particular emphasis on the four countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, this text describes how repeated glaciation, and intervening warmer stages, affected Scandinavia and its surrounding areas, focusing on the Late Weicheslian period as well as the Holocene.During the Quaternary Period, Scandinavia's mountains were the source for repeated glaciation that covered much of eastern, central and western Europe. With a particular emphasis on Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, this text describes how these glaciations, and their intervening warmer stages, affected Scandinavia and the surrounding areas. In particular, this account focuses on the last cold stage, the Weichselian, with its extensive Late Weichselian glaciation and the subsequent deglaciation, and on the last 10,000 years, the Holocene, with its well documented environmental changes. The Quaternary History of Scandinavia provides a cross-frontier synthesis of how the glaciation affected this vast region.1. Introduction; 2. Pre-Quaternary substratum; 3. Northern Europe in the Quaternary; 4. Pre-Saalian stages; 5. Saalian stage; 6. Eemian stage; 7. Division of the Weichselian stage and the application of radiocarbon dating; 8. Early Weichselian substage; 9. Middle Weichselian substage; 10. Middle and Late Weichselian glaciation; 11. Late Weichselian and Early Flandrian deglaciation; 12. Flandrian biostratigraphy and climatic changes; 13. Late Weichselian and Flandrian land/sea-level changes; 14. Land mammals; 15. Quaternary chronology in Scandinavia. ...the definitive statement on the stratigrlS€