Field guide for the NORDQUA excursion to Sunnmøre, western Norway, 22-25 September 2014. Eiliv Larsen1, Jan Mangerud2, and John Inge Svendsen2. 1The Geological Survey of Norway. E-mail:
[email protected] Mobile phone: +47 95 85 50 51. 2Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen.
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[email protected], Mobile phone: +47 97 46 50 13 1 Foreword This excursion guide was written before our pre-excursion planning trip. It will therefore probably be some minor changes in the program. Most of the older literature that we refer to in the guide can be down-loaded from Jan Mangeruds home page: http://www.folk.uib.no/ngljm/. If any of you have problems to obtain papers where one of us is author/co-author then do not hesitate to send us an e-mail with request. Program Day 1. Arrival at Ålesund airport, Vigra. Site 1: Skjonghelleren Cave. Only some 8-10 people can creep into Skjonghelleren at a time, so we will try to find some parallel activity. Site 2: Dimna bog. Coring. Vedde and Dimna ash beds. Stay overnight in Quality Hotel, Ulsteinvik. Day 2. Site 3: Mulevika on the westernmost shore of Nerlandsøy. Beach ridge at marine limit. Site 4. Frøystadmyra, Leinøy. Coring. Tsunami, sea-level changes. Site 4: Litlevatn, Gurskøy. Coring. Sea-level changes. Litlevatn was isolated during Late Allerød. Stay overnight in Best Western Hotel Baronen, Spjelkavik. Day 3. Site 5. Riksheim, Sykkylven. Sections in Younger Dryas local moraine. Site 6.