The Late Weichselian ice sheet in the Nordfjord – Sunnmøre area and deglaciation chronology for Nordfjord, western Norway

Abstract

Rye, N., Nesje, A., Lien, R. & Anda, E. 1987. The Late Weichselian ice sheet in the Nordfjord – Sunnmøre area and deglaciation chronology for Nordfjord, western Norway. Norsk geogr. Tidsskr. Vol. 41, 23–43. Oslo. ISSN 0029-1951.

Block fields, alpine morphology and glacially sculptured landforms in the Nordfjord – Sunnmøre area suggest that the highest mountains in this region were never completely covered by the inland ice during the Late Weichselian maximum glaciation. A mainly NW ice drainage from the accumulation zones of the inland ice sheet in the east and a culmination area at the Jostedal Plateau were strongly influenced by effective drainage routes through the fjords and valleys. On the basis of the sequence of deglaciation and associated marine levels and radiocarbon dates, a chronology and a time-distance diagram for the deglaciation of Nordfjord are presented.