Radiocarbon Dating Evidence for the Initiation of Solifluction Ca. 5500 Years B. P. at Okstindan, North Norway

1 April 1979

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography

Vol. 61 (1-2) , 29-33
https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.1979.11879978

Abstract

Stratigraphic evidence is presented for the commencement of solifluction at a site 850 m a.s.l. during the Early Subboreal Chronozone. at ca. 5500 years B.P. It is possible that this process was initiated as the result of a climatic deterioration, in which case the site examined provides one of only two examples of ¹⁴C-dated stratigraphic evidence currently available for such an event occurring at around this time in the mountains of Scandinavia.

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