The Bølling‐age Blomvåg Beds, western Norway: implications for the Older Dryas glacial re‐advance and the age of the deglaciation

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Mangerud, Jan, Briner, Jason P., Goslar, Tomasz, Svendsen, John Inge
• Other Authors: Norges Forskningsråd
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Bergen; Flint; Norway; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12208; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12208; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12208

Blomvåg, on the western coast of Norway north of Bergen, is a classical site in Norwegian Quaternary science. Foreshore marine sediments, named the Blomvåg Beds and now dated to the Bølling‐Allerød from 14.8 to 13.3 cal. ka BP , contain the richest Lateglacial bone fauna in Norway, numerous mollusc...