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dc.contributor.authorAlexanderson, Helena
dc.contributor.authorHättestrand, Martina
dc.contributor.authorLindqvist, Mimmi A.
dc.contributor.authorSigfúsdóttir, Thorbjörg
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-17T08:43:49Z
dc.date.available2022-08-17T08:43:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-14
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlexanderson H, Hättestrand M, Lindqvist, Sigfúsdóttir. MIS 3 age of the Veiki moraine in N Sweden – Dating the landform record of an intermediate-sized ice sheet in Scandinavia. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine research. 2022;54(1):239-261en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2039226
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15230430.2022.2091308
dc.identifier.issn1523-0430
dc.identifier.issn1938-4246
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26232
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalArctic, Antarctic and Alpine research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleMIS 3 age of the Veiki moraine in N Sweden – Dating the landform record of an intermediate-sized ice sheet in Scandinaviaen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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