Map of glacial striation of the Scandinavian ice sheet during the last (Weichsel) glaciation in northern Europe

Abstract

The observations on glacial striae from the area of the Scandinavian ice sheet have been collected from previous Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish geological literature. The main directions of ice movement of the Weichsel glaciation in northern Europe have been compiled by the author on a map (Appendix I) and shortly explained in this paper. In several closely-studied small areas there can be distinguished two or more successive generations of striae, representing different directions of ice flow during the Weichsel glaciation. The clusters of arrows on the map in Fig. 1 show the relative ages of several ice movements. These are mostly only local, and cannot be generalized over the whole of Fennoscandia. There are also still many areas for which no investigations of striation exist.