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Matti Sauramo, The mode of the land upheaval in Fennoscandia.
during this time was very scanty. There is, however, another method
available, basing itself upon the glacifluvial deposits which were
formed in the marginal zone of the retreating land-ice. These deposits
have the characteristic bedding of deltas, and the flat top shows the
Fig. 3. Map showing Fennoscandia during the first Rhabdonema Sea stage.
level which the water-cover had attained when the delta was built
up. Chronologically every delta can be placed in correlation with the
receding ice margin, with which the former have always stood in
the closest contact. Further, the annually varved sediments in the
neighbourhood of the delta afford a means of determining its place
in the absolute time-scale of the Late-Quaternary Epoch. The dating
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