Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 46 - arkisto.gsf.fi

Johansson, P. & Sarala, P. (eds.) 2007. Applied Quaternary research
in the central part of glaciated terrain. Geological Survey
of Finland, Special Paper 46, 161 pages, 100 fi gures, 7 tables.
The INQUA Peribaltic Group Field Symposium was held in September
11.–15.2006 in the central and northern part of Finland.
Topics related to Late Pleistocene glaciogenic deposits in the
central part of the Scandinavian ice sheet were discussed during
the excursions and meeting. This publication contains 21 peer-reviewed
papers that are based on the oral and poster presentations
given at the symposium. The papers represent a wide range of
recent Quaternary research achievements in the glaciated areas
of northern Europe, America and Antarctica.
The fi rst paper by Sarala gives a general presentation of the
glacial stratigraphy and characteristics of southern Lapland and
Koillismaa in Finland. In the next papers Yevzerov et al. and Korsakova
& Kolka present results relating to deglaciation history in
the Kola Peninsula. Depositional conditions and deposits of the
last deglaciation are also discussed in the papers by Karmaziene .
et al. and Baltr0nas et al. for the northern and southern parts of
Lithuania respectively.
In the next papers the subglacial hydrography and drainage of
the melting phase are discussed. The paper by Johansson deals
with meltwater action and deposits in northern Finland. In the
papers by Sutinen et al. and Rattas the development of subglacial
drainage systems and the related deposits are presented. Subglacial
tunnel valleys and their sedimentation are introduced by
Kehew & Kozlowski.
In the paper by Hang et al. varved clay studies in proglacial
sedimentary environment in western Estonia are presented. Studies
of buried organic sediments in the glaciolacustrine/-marine
environment in Estonia are discussed by Saarse et al. In the second
paper by Sutinen et al. macrofossils relating to the birch-pinespruce
succession in western Finnish Lapland have been studied.
Sharapova & Semenova and Bolikhovskaya & Molodkov have
done pollen investigations for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
in Kola Peninsula and Estonia. In the paper by Gyllencreutz
et al. a new GIS-based reconstruction and dating database are
presented.
Seismotectonic events in Lapland are discussed in the third
paper of Sutinen et al. and in Kola region in the paper of Yevzerov
& Nikolaeva. An example of the applied use of geophysical
methods in the study of lithology and hydraulic properties of tills
is given in the fourth paper of Sutinen et al. In the last papers, the
urban geology of Tartu in Estonia is discussed by Kalm, and in
southern Finland by Ojala and Palmu and morphotectonic investigations
of the Antarctic by Lastochkin & Krotova-Putintseva.