An aeolian or a glaciolacustrine record? A case study from Mieļupīte, Middle Gauja Lowland, northeast Latvia

• Published in: Geologos
• Main Authors: Nartišs Māris, Kalińska-Nartiša Edyta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017
• Subjects: dune; ice-dammed lake; quartz grains; optically stimulated luminescence; linkuva ice-marginal zone; baltic states; Geology; QE1-996.5; Dammed Lake; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/logos-2017-0002; https://doaj.org/article/8eaaa6bf87474ab9b5f6e36d8672e356

In the Middle Gauja Lowland, northeast Latvia, dunes are distributed over a vast glaciolacustrine plain that formed during the retreat of the Fennoscandian ice sheet. Such a direct contact between aeolian and glaciolacustrine sediments can be used to infer depositional settings and decipher to what...