Radiocarbon Dating Evidence for the Initiation of Solifluction Ca. 5500 Years B. P. at Okstindan, North Norway

ABSTRACT

Stratigraphic evidence is presented for the commencement of solifluction at a site 850 m a.s.l. during the Early Subboreal Chronozone. at ca. 5500 years B.P. It is possible that this process was initiated as the result of a climatic deterioration, in which case the site examined provides one of only two examples of ¹⁴C-dated stratigraphic evidence currently available for such an event occurring at around this time in the mountains of Scandinavia.