Weathering of surface clasts as an indicator of the relative age of glacial deposits on Jameson Land, East Greenland

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: LlLLIESKÖLD, MARIANNE, SUNDQVIST, BJÖRN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Greenland; Jameson Land; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x

The relative age of glacial deposits on Jameson Land was investigated by weathering‐based techniques. Two related methods, measurement of rind thickness and of Schmidt hammer rebound values. were added to a dating programme of luminescence‐, amino acid‐ and 14 C‐analyses. Rind thicknesses differ significantly between areas which represent three glacial phascs, spanning a time interval from late Saale to Late Weichselian. Rebound values are more susceptible to external factors than the rind values but may, if these external factors are known, serve as a complement to the interpretation of rind development.