| Summary: | The earliest recognizable Quaternary sediments in Spitsbergen, dated by the thermoluminescence method for about 413, 000 years BP and composed of marine clays, are ascribed to the Torellkjegla (=Holstein, Mazovian) Interglacial. These clays are overlain by deposits of the Wedel Jarlsberg Land glaciations (=Saalian, Middle-Polish glaciations), dated by the thermoluminescence method for 313,000 to 220,000 years BP. The maximum of the Sörkapp Land (=Weichselian, Vistulian) Glaciation an Spitsbergen was certified for about 45,000 to 40,000 years BP. An attempt of correlation of the Spitsbergen glaciations with Scandinavian glaciations in Poland indicates a distinct convergence in time of the main Quaternary climatic fluctuations in the Artctic and in Central Europe.
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