Maximum extent of the Valdaian (Weichselian) glaciation and relief in the peripheral area of the ice sheet
https://doi.org/10.31857/S0435428120030098
Abstract
After the end of the Mikulino interglacial, in connection with the rising cooling trend, the Scandinavian ice sheet began to form on the territory of Fennoscandia. Its development to the maximum boundaries was accompanied by the ice sheet advances and retreats that reflected the succession of colder and warmer climate phases over a long period, called the Valdaian (Weichselian, Vistulian) ice age.
The Scandinavian ice sheet did not reach its maximum simultaneously at different lobes. The age of the maximum boundary on becomes younger from west to east, which is associated with the paleoclimatic situation in the North of Eurasia due to the formation of an extra-continental climate. Climate continentality increased eastward along the periphery of the ice sheet.
These climate features and the ice sheet response determined the nature of glacial morphogenesis in the proglacial zone. The conditions for the formation of a peripheral ice sheet and an increase in the number of mudflows and the formation of glacial lakes were more favorable during the ice sheet degradation than its expansion. Therefore, the forms of active and dead ice, especially the terminal moraines and kames of different types, the valleys of marginal channels and outwash plains serve as the hallmarks of the stages of warming and degradation of ice sheets.
Supporting agencies: This research contributes to the IGRAS State Assignment 0148-2019-0005. Reconstructions for the south-east sector of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet were held in the framework of the RSF Project 17-17- 01289.
About the Authors
A. N. Makkaveyev
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
M. A. Faustova
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
N. V. Karpukhina
Institute of Geography RAS
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Makkaveyev A.N., Faustova M.A., Karpukhina N.V. Maximum extent of the Valdaian (Weichselian) glaciation and relief in the peripheral area of the ice sheet. Geomorfologiya. 2020;(3):3-19. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S0435428120030098
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