Reworked Middle Pleistocene deposits preserved in the core region of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet

• Published in: Quaternary Science Advances
• Main Authors: Niko Putkinen, Pertti Sarala, Nick Eyles, Heidi Daxberger, Jouni Pihlaja, Andrew Murray
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Stratigraphy; Glacigenic; Inter-till sediments; Sub-weichselian sediments; Optically stimulated luminescence; Saalian ice age; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Archaeology; CC1-960; Salla; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100005; https://doaj.org/article/aa2d3bbf4b46427ca3646d44e6b7a6d5

During successive Pleistocene ice ages, Finnish Lapland lay under the cold-based centre of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS). This area largely escaped deep glacial erosion by the fast-flowing wet-based ice streams that developed toward the periphery of successive ice sheets. Low erosion is evident...