Late Weichselian and early Holocene changes of vegetation, climate and sea level on the Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland

• Main Author: Rundgren, Mats
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University 1997
• Subjects: Geology; asthenosphere viscosity; glacial loading/unloading; marine polar front migrations; sea-level change; climate change; vegetation change; Early Holocene; Late Weichselian; Iceland; Lake sediments; Skagi peninsula; physical geography; Geologi; fysisk geografi; High Lake; Low Lake; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Tundra
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/29383

Sediment sequences from five lakes on the Skagi peninsula, northern Iceland, were subjected to mineral magnetic analysis, carbon analysis, pollen analysis, plant macrofossil analysis, diatom analysis, radiocarbon dating and tephra analysis in order to make detailed reconstructions of vegetation, cli...