Late Holocene glacier fluctuations in Bevringsdalen, Jostedalsbreen region, western Norway (ca 3200-1400 BP)

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Nesje, Atle, Dahl, Svein Olaf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1991
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; glacier
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095968369100100102; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095968369100100102

Lithostratigraphy and radiocarbon dates from a 1.3 m-deep gully section in Bevringsdalen, SW of Jostedalsbreen in western Norway, with alternating minerogenic (glacial) and peat (non-glacial) layers, demonstrate that glaciers upvalley from the site were present during the following intervals: 2595 ± 85 BP (840-700 cal. BC) to 2360 ± 80 BP (525-385 cal. BC); between 2250 ± 65 BP (395-225 cal. BC) and 2150 ± 80 BP (360-105 cal. BC); between 1740 ± 75 BP (cal. AD 205-385), and 1730 ± 75 BP (cal. AD 210-395); and subsequent to 1430 ± 45 BP (cal. AD 595-645). Detailed altitudinal fluctuations of the glaciation threshold/equilibrium line relative to the present have been reconstructed for the time interval between 1430 ± 45 BP (cal. AD 595-645) and 3180 ± 90 BP (1540-1395 cal. BC).