ESR age of the Late Pleistocene transgressions in the eastern part of the White Sea coast

• Main Authors: Molodkov, Anatoly, Raukas, Anto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Lithuanian; English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Age; Early Weichselian; Eemian; Electron-spin-resonance (ESR); Dating; Marine deposits; Mollusc shells; White Sea
• Online Access: http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB5833870&prefLang=en_US

In the eastern part of the White Sea coast there is a clear evidence of at least two Late Pleistocene transgressive cycles. The deposits of the transgressions are well preserved and abound in malacofauna. Numerical ages obtained by the ESR method on subfossil shell remains suggest a correlation of those sea transgressions with oxygen isotope stages 5 and 3. These two marine transgressions were produced by the glacioeustatic oscillation of the sea level. The present different heights of the corresponding formations above sea level are due to an uneven tectonic uplift. The evidence of the same transgressions has been derived from other localities of Northern Eurasia.