New finds of Middle Paleocene (Selandian) strata in Skåne, southern Sweden. A preliminary report

Abstract

In a splendid monograph, published in 1948, F. Brotzen treated the stratigraphy and prolific foraminiferal fauna obtained from a rather thin (< 3 m) Middle Paleocene (Selandian) sequence in southern Sweden (Klagshamn and Ystad areas). He also described a Late Paleocene foraminiferal fauna found in erratic boulders in eastern Skåne (Maglehem). In 1962, Brotzen briefly described the Tertiary deposits of southern Sweden and remarked (p. 166) that a 15-m-thick sequence of Middle Paleocene age had been found in a bore-hole west of Ystad. Since 1948, little attention has been paid to the Swedish Tertiary-However, material from some recent borings for water in the Svedala area in south-western Skåne (Fig. 1) has focussed attention on this geology. The material seems to indicate the presence of a more than 15 m thick sequence of Middle Paleocene rocks within an area of several square kilometres, mainly west and south-west of the village of Svedala.