Om sydvästra Sveriges senkvartära historia

Abstract

When L. von Post's diagram showing the “Mathematic relations of the ancient shore-levels of the Vänern-Basin” (von Post, 1933) could be substituted by an ordinary distance-diagram (E. Nilsson, 1953) it was obvious that no irregular earth-movements had occurred in this region during the Late-Quaternary time.

Now as the shorelines of the distance-diagram have been extended southward to the Swedish West Coast (fig. 1) and the displacement-curves are drawn for Göteborg, Horred and Halmstad these curves also register a very regular landuplift and a continous regression of the sea during the Goti- and Finiglacial times, followed by a Postglacial transgression. These curves fit very well with the results of earlier investigations in Göteborg and Halmstad.

There are no signs of any irregular earth-movements and, of course, no use longer of “elastic chockes” (von Post) and hinge-lines (N. A. Mörner) in explaining the Late-Quaternary History of the SW Sweden; the mode of uplift of the land has been the same as that for the main part of southern Sweden as well as for Finland, the Kattegatt region and the adjoining parts of Denmark.