An early pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycle in the breida vík group on Tjörnes, Iceland:Sedimentary facies, foraminifera, and molluscs

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Eiríksson, Jón, Knudsen, Karen Luise, Vilhjálmsson, Már
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: Arctic; Breida; Greenland; Tjörnes; Vík; Foraminifera*; glacier; Iceland; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/an-early-pleistocene-glacialinterglacial-cycle-in-the-breida-vik-group-on-tjoernes-iceland(f2ebac7f-211d-4d39-87f2-65b9293c2e77).html; https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-3791(92)90080-R; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0027037329&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Sedimentary facies, foraminifera, and molluscs are used to reconstruct environmental conditions during the accumulation of the 1.5 Ma Svarthamar Member unit from the Tjörnes sequence, North Iceland. The Tjörnes sequence and the Breidavík Group in particular contains a unique record of Cainozoic glac...