Holocene deposits from Neptune’s Cave, Nordland, Norway: environmental interpretation and relation to the deglacial and emergence history of the Velfjord–Tosenfjord area

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Faulkner, Trevor L., Hunt, Chris O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1907; Geology; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Norway; Velfjord; glacier; Nordland; Tidewater
• Online Access: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/bc378b5c-3279-4f4a-adc1-fc46f23a48fb; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00094.x

Neptune’s Cave in the Velfjord–Tosenfjord area of Nordland, Norway is described, together with its various organic deposits. Samples of attached barnacles, loose marine molluscs, animal bones and organic sediments were dated, with radiocarbon ages of 9840+/-90 and 9570+/-80 yr BP being derived for t...