Immigration of glacial relicts into northern Europe

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Author: SEGERSTRALE, SVEN G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1976
• Subjects: Arctic; Dammed Lake; Kola Peninsula; Onega; White Sea; Ice cap; Ice Sheet; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1976.tb00327.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1976.tb00327.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1976.tb00327.x

On the basis of opinions held by leading Soviet geologists the author, in a paper of 1957, concluded that the immigration started from an ice‐dammed lake in the valley of R. Onega, emptying into the White Sea, from which the animals had been sluiced up in front of the advancing ice‐sheet. Recent geo...