DEGLACIATION

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FENNOSCANDIA
Stroeven, AP, Hättestrand, C, Kleman, J, Heyman, J, Fabel, D, Fredin, O, Goodfellow,
BW, Harbor, JM, Jansen, JD, Olsen, L, Caffee, MW, Fink, D, Lundqvist,
J, Rosqvist, GC, Strömberg, B & Jansson,

Introduction Data and methods

Accelerated ice sheet melt, in addition to ice sheet mass A compilation of :

loss through calving, is an expected rise in global mean
sea level, with spatial variations around that mean and Geomorphological data
resulting challenges for coastal land use. The most holistic  Eskers
way of addressing the temporal evolution of glaciation for  Ice-marginal formations
a particular ice sheet are ice sheets models, which have the  Lineations,
largest limitations and need calibration.  Marginal meltwater channels
 Striae
Aim  Ice-dammed lakes

The aim of the study is to provide targets for the Geochronological data
evaluation of ice sheet modelling output.  Radiocarbon
 Varve
 Optically stimulated luminescence
 Cosmogenic nuclide dating

Results

 A time slice map of the deglaciation of Fennoscandia Ice sheet with isochrons marking every thousand years
between 22 and 13 cal kyr BP and every hundred years between 11,6 and final ice decay after 9.7
cal kyr BP.

 Variations in deglaciation patterns are seen, showing differences in climatic and geomorphic settings, ice sheet basal
thermal conditions, topography and between terrestrial and marine margins.

 The western sector appears more sensitively to climatic variations.

 Slow retreat in western and southern Sweden while a rapid retreat in the Baltic Basin.

 The lowest retreat rates are on the high elevation and maritime Norwegian margin.
 A different chronology of moraine over southern Sweden using new LIDAR data.
 Retreat rates compared with information provide from the Greenland ice core record, show a correlation between
retreat rate and climatic forcing

Conclusion The time slice map of Fennoscandia Ice Sheet gives the possibility of
testing and refining ice sheet models.