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Helena Alexandersson

Helena Alexanderson

Professor

Helena Alexandersson

MIS 3 age of the Veiki moraine in N Sweden–Dating the landform record of an intermediate-sized ice sheet in Scandinavia

Författare

  • Helena Alexanderson
  • Martina Hättestrand
  • Mimmi A. Lindqvist
  • Thorbjörg Sigfúsdóttir

Summary, in English

The Veiki moraine in northern Sweden, a geomorphologically distinct landscape of ice-walled lake plains, has been interpreted to represent the former margin of an intermediate-sized pre–Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Fennoscandian ice sheet, but its age is debated as either marine isotope stage (MIS) 5c or MIS 3. We have applied optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating to four sites within the northern part of the Veiki moraine to establish its chronology. The radiocarbon ages provide only minimum ages and most OSL ages have low precision due to poor luminescence characteristics and problems with incomplete bleaching, leading to two alternative ages. In either case, the OSL dating places the Veiki moraine formation in MIS 3 (best estimate 56–39 ka). Sedimentation continued in the low-lying centers of some plateaus (ice-walled lake plains) during MIS 3 and during the Holocene, with a break during the Last Glacial Maximum when the area was ice covered. We speculatively constrain the broad timing further by relating the sequence of events to other climate records. We suggest that ice margin retreat to the west of the Veiki area took place during Greenland Interstadial (GI) 16.1 (58.0–56.5 ka) and that limited ice advances, which led to debris-covered ice margins in the Veiki zone, occurred during the following stadials GS-16.1 to 15.1 (56.5–54.2 ka). The GI-14 interstadial, which began 54.2 ka and lasted ~5.9 ka, could then be the period when the ice within the dead-ice landscape melted, first leading to ice-walled lakes and later to the inversed topography characteristic of the Veiki landscape.

Avdelning/ar

  • Kvartärgeologi

Publiceringsår

2022

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

239-261

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volym

54

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • Fennoscandian ice sheet
  • Ice-walled lake plain
  • luminescence dating
  • Middle Weichselian
  • OSL

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1523-0430