"Geology in the service of palaeogeography": reconstructing the Late Pleistocene to Holocene transition on the southern shore of the Kola Peninsula

Zaretskaya N.E.^1,2, Baranov D.V.¹, Pistsova M.A.¹, Mishurinsky D.V.³, Kachalov A.Yu.¹, Mitskevich V.I.¹, Rybalko A.E.²

"GEOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY": RECONSTRUCTING THE LATE PLEISTOCENE TO HOLOCENE TRANSITION ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF THE KOLA PENINSULA

Relief and Quaternary deposits of the Arctic, Subarctic and North-West Russia. Issue 10.

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¹Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

²VNIIOkeangeologiya, St. Petersburg, Russia

³SEO "57 School", Moscow, Russia

Abstract. As a result of field studies conducted in 2023 on the Kandalaksha and Terskiy coasts of the White Sea, preliminary conclusions were made about the sequence of sedimentation settings during the last glaciosedimentation cycle: glacial-marine - glacial - glaciolacustrine - marine deep-water - marine coastal - aeolian. At the turn of the early and middle Holocene on the Kandalaksha coast a catastrophic reorganization of the hydrosystem could have occurred as a result of glacioisostatic adjustment of the territory.

Keywords: Kandalaksha and Terskiy coasts, last glaciosedimentation cycle, sedimentary environments, Late Glacial, drilling, dating, analytical studies

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Zaretskaya N.E., Baranov D.V., Pistsova M.A., Mishurinsky D.V., Kachalov A.Yu., Mitskevich V.I., Rybalko A.E. "Geology in the service of palaeogeography": reconstructing the Late Pleistocene to Holocene transition on the southern shore of the Kola Peninsula // Relief and Quaternary deposits of the Arctic, Subarctic and North-West Russia. 2023. Issue 10. P. 93-99. doi: 10.24412/2687-1092-2023-10-93-99