THE LUNDERGÅRD CLAY OF VENDSYSSEL

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Gård; Foraminifera*
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been analyzed for their foraminifera content. The marine Quaternary deposits of borings I, II and III consist mainly of clay, here called the Lundergård Clay. It contains a characteristic foraminifeia fauna with Elphidium excavatum, forma clavata and Cassidulina crassa as the dominant species and Quinqueloculina sialkeri and Elphidium ustula-tum as characteristic species. The fauna is arctic and belongs to an interstadial rather than an interglacial environment. The fauna is compared with assemblages from other marine Quaternary deposits from Vendsyssel and from adjacent areas, and the age of the Lunder-gård Clay is discussed. It may represent either a hitherto unknown facies of the Older Yoldia Clay of Vendsyssel, which is supposed to be of Weichselian interstadial age, or it may be older and correctable with the Holderness Basement Till of Saale interstadial age.