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Quaternary stratigraphy of Norden, a proposal for terminology and classification
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In this paper, a proposal for a common chronostratigraphical classification of the Quaternary in Norden (and partly continental NW Europe) is made, based on the sequence of glacials/interglacials.Abstract:
Principles and terminology for classification of the Quaternary are discussed, including lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy. morphostratigraphy, climatostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy. The main conclusion is a proposal for a common chronostratigraphical classification of the Quaternary in Norden (and partly continental NW Europe). The Quaternary is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Series. The Pleistocene is further subdivided into several provisional stages (Weichselian, Eemian, etc.), based on the sequence of glacials/interglacials. but with the boundaries preferably defined by stratotypes. The Late Weichselian and the Flandrian (Holocene) are subdivided into chronozoncs (Bolling, Older Dryas, Allerod, Younger Dryas, Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal, Subatlantic) with the boundaries dcfined in conventional radiocarbon years.read more
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Late Quaternary sediments and stratigraphy on the continental shelf off Troms and west Finnmark, northern Norway
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated 13 gravity cores and found that 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 and early Weichselsian.
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Postglacial formation and dynamics of North Patagonian Rainforest in the Chonos Archipelago, Southern Chile
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Fluvial incision and channel downcutting as a response to Late‐glacial and Early Holocene climate change: the lower reach of the River Meuse (Maas), The Netherlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the Venlo-Boxmeer lower reach of the River Meuse in the southern Netherlands has been reconstructed using 14C dating of residual channel infillings.
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Reconstructing the environmental history of the last glacial-interglacial transition: Evidence from the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
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TL;DR: In this article, a new interpretation of the Late Devensian (Late Weichselian/Wisconsinan) Lateglacial and early Flandrian (Holocene) environmental history of the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland is presented.
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Morphologic variability of exposed mass-transport deposits on the eastern slope of Gela Basin (Sicily channel)
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