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Glacial Erosion of Sediments in the Ålfjord, western Norway

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In western Norway pre Late Weichselian sediments (older than 15,000 B.P.) are limited except at a few locations. Ålfjord (Fig. 1) is a coast parallel fjord with up to 250 ms TWT thick sediment sequences. Ice movement was towards the Norwegian Channel [Holtedahl 1975] and the area has been ice free during Mid Weichselian [Sejrup & Larsen 1991].

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  • Holtedahl, H., The Geology of the Hardangerfjord, West Norway, Norges geologiske Undersokelse 323, 87 pp. 1975.

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  • Sejrup H.P., and E. Larsen, Eemian-early Weichselian N-S temperature gradiants; North Atlantic-NW Europe, Quaternary International 10–12, 161–166. 1991.

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Bergen, Allégt. 41, N-5007, Bergen, Norway

    Inge Aarseth

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  1. Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA

    Thomas A. Davies

  2. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada

    Trevor Bell

  3. Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA

    Alan K. Cooper

  4. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B26 4A2, Canada

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  5. Byrd Polar Research Center, 1090 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

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  6. Norwegian Polar Institute, P.O. Box 5072, Majorstua, Oslo, N0301, Norway

    Anders Solheim

  7. Murchison House, British Geological Survey, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3LA, Scotland, UK

    Martyn S. Stoker

  8. Dept. of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA

    Jay A. Stravers

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Aarseth, I. (1997). Glacial Erosion of Sediments in the Ålfjord, western Norway. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_10

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