Weichselian sediments containing redeposited interstadialhnterglacial fossils at Slettaelva, North Norway

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: VORREN, TORE O., CORNER, GEOFFREY D., NAGY, JENÖ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1981
• Subjects: Norway; North Norway; Tundra; Troms
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1981.tb00511.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1981.tb00511.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1981.tb00511.x

The following stratigraphy was found at Slettaelva, near Tromso̊ (from bottom to top): greenish basal till (unit A), laminated c lay (unit B), fossitiferous basal till (Unit C). Unit A probably derives from an early Weichselin local glaciation, Unit B comprises lacustrine sediments which were apparently deposited in an early Weichselian tundra‐like enivironment, Unit C, which contains reworked fossils of moulluscs, palynomorphs and foraminifera, was deposited by a continenntal ice shcet. Amino acid ratios of Mya truncata and plaaeontological evidence indicate that unit Ccontains a mixed fossil assemblage, probably of Eemian and Weichselian interstadial age.