The marine Quaternary in Denmark: a review of new evidence from glacial-interglacial studies

The marine Quaternary of the onshore areas in Denmark is restricted to deposits from the Middle and the Late Quaternary. Selected marine glacial-interglacial paleoenvironmental reconstruct­ions from this sequence are reviewed with special emphasis on relatively recent studies. In addition, an outline of the stratigraphy of the Skagen 3 borehole is given for the first time. The Quaternary at Skagen has a total thickness of almost 200 m. A lower about 7 m thick marine Saalian-Eemian-Early Weichselian sequence (between ea. 185 and 178 m depth in the core) is succeeded by a fluvial deposit (178-132 m) and an apparently continuous extremely thick marine Late Weichselian and Holocene sequence (from 132 m depth to the top of the core).