Kineto-stratigraphy at Hvideklint, M0n, Denmark and its regional significance

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A detailed investigation of the deformed drift and chalk floes at Hvideklint, M0n was carried out using the kineto-stratigraphic principle. Various structural evidence show that glacier advances coming from the northeast caused the thrusting and folding displayed at Hvideklint. The chalk floes were probably derived from the Fakse Bug! area, and pushed into their present positions in front of the advancing ice. When the ice overrode the floes, chalk-till melange, an example ofglaciodynamic melange, was created by subglacial deformation. Although a minor amount of water due to pressure-melting may have formed during thrust­ing, these deformations probably affected materials that were largely frozen. Three till units with as­sociated stratified drift are present at Hvideklint. A covering discordant till and an upper dislocated till are ascribed to the main Weichselian glaciation -the Northeast Advance. These two tills overlie a lower dislocated till that is assigned to the Weichselian Old Baltic Advance. On the basis of pebble counts, the discordant and upper dislocated tills at Hvideklint correspond to the thick, upper dislocated till at M0ns Klint, while the lower dislocated till at Hvideklint matches the thin, lower dislocated till at M0ns Klint. The Young Baltic Advance supposedly caused the latest dislocations at M0ns Klint, but this advance apparantly did not disturb the Hvideklint section.

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