The deglaciation of Scandinavia earlier than 10 000 B.P.: The 1978 Uppsala Symposium

The 1978 Uppsala Symposium was organized as a geste d'honneur to the memory of Otto Torell and his Ice-Age Theory, published a little more than a hundred years ago. The Symposium opened with a lecture on the development of the Ice-Age Theory, then four regional surveys of our present knowledge of the deglaciation pattern and chronology yielded new and somewhat controversial ideas about the melting of the Scandinavian Continental Ice, and more than forty individual research reports showed the dynamic scientific situation in Quaternary Geology in Norden. The Symposium and this issue of Boreas form part of the joint Nordic activity within the IGCP project entitled 'Quaternary Glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere'.