The Late Weichselian and Holocene shoreline displacement on the west-central coast of Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Landvik, Jon Y., Mangerud, Jan, Salvigsen, Otto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1987
• Subjects: Svalbard; glacier; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2438; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v5i1.6866

Three well-developed raised marine shorelines along Nordenskioldkysten have been studied and correlated with the shoreline displacement since the last deglaciation. The marine limit of 64 m in the area is of Late Weichselian age and has been dated to 10,900- I1,OOO years B.P. An intermediate level at 50 m is estimated to be 10,600-10,000 years old and demonstrates a sea level stagnation probably caused by a glacier readvance in eastern Svalbard during the Younger Dryas. A Holocene transgression culminating shortly after 6,000 years B.P. has been stratigraphically demonstrated, and it probably correlates with the Tapes transgression of Scandinavia. No pre-Late Weichselian marine levels are found, and the large rebound can be attributed only to a Late Weichselian glaciation.