Tracing the last remnants of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet: Ice-dammed lakes and a catastrophic outburst flood in northern Sweden

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Regnéll, Carl, Mangerud, Jan, Svendsen, John-Inge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2019
• Subjects: Quaternary; Glaciation; Scandinavia; Geomorphology; Glacial; Deglaciation; IDL; GLOF; Fennoscandian ice sheet; Early Holocene; Isostasy; Dammed Lake; Glacial Lake; Norwegian Sea; Sarek; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/21672; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105862

We present geomorphological evidence of large, previously undocumented, early Holocene ice-dammed lakes in the Scandinavian Mountains of northwestern Sweden. The lakes extents indicate that the last remnants of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet were located east of the mountain range. Some early pioneering...