Holocene shore displacement and deglaciation chronology in

• Main Author: Per Sandgren
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Ice Sheet; Northern Sweden; Norrbotten
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.537.6860; http://www.geol.lu.se/personal/PRM/pdf_papers full text/boreas_2006_shoreline.pdf

The coastal zone of Norrbotten, northern Sweden, was gradually inundated by the Ancylus Lake following the retreating ice margin and forming a highest coastline approximately 210 m above the present sea level. The succeeding shore displacement is reconstructed based on lithological investigations and radiocarbon datings of identified isolation sequences from 12 cored lake basins. The highest lake basins, along with two basins above the highest shoreline, suggest ice-free conditions already at 10 500 cal. yr BP. This is at least 500 years earlier than previously thought and implies rapid ice-sheet break-up in the Gulf of Bothnia. The shore displacement (RSL) curve represents a forced regression of successively decreasing rate through the Holocene, from 9 m/100 yr to 0.8 m/100 yr. During the first 1000/1200 years, the isostatic uplift is exponentially declining, followed by a