Younger Dryas deglaciation at Mt. Billingen, and clay varve dating of the Younger Dryas/Preboreal transition

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Author: STRÖMBERG, BO
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: GISP; Greenland; Greenland ice cores; GRIP
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00598.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1994.tb00598.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00598.x

A clay varve chronology has been established for the Late Weichselian ice recession east of Mt. Billingen in Västergötland, Sweden. In this area the Middle‐Swedish end moraine zone was built up as a consequence of cold climate during the Younger Dryas stadial. A change‐over from rapid to slow retrea...