Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

The inheritance of a Mesozoic landscape in western Scandinavia

  • Ola Fredin,
  • Giulio Viola,
  • Horst Zwingmann,
  • Ronald Sørlie,
  • Marco Brönner,
  • Jan-Erik Lie,
  • Else Margrethe Grandal,
  • Axel Müller,
  • Annina Margreth,
  • Christoph Vogt,
  • Jochen Knies

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14879
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The age of weathering inferred from bedrock saprolite local to Scandinavia remains loosely constrained. Here, via K-Ar dating of authigenic, syn-weathering illite from saprolitic remnants, the authors constrain weathering to the Late Triassic.