Ice-free intervals continuing into Marine Isotope Stage 3 at Sokli in the central area of the Fennoscandian glaciations

• Main Authors: Karin F. Helmens, Peter W. Johansson, Matti E. Räsänen, Helena Alex, Kari O. Eskola
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; glacial geology; sediments; stratigraphy; pollen analysis; paleobotany; climate change; interstadial environment; interglacial environment; chronology; Pleistocene; Sokli; Lapland Province; Maaselkä; Peräpohjola; Tulppio; Fennoscandian; Lapland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.462.7821; http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume79/Helmens_etal_2007.pdf

An unusually long and continuous Late Quaternary sedimentary sequence has been pre-served in a sedimentary basin formed in the Sokli Carbonatite Massif in eastern-central Finnish Lapland. A nearly complete sediment recovery from the central Sokli basin com-bined with palynological results from sedim...