THE AUCELLAELV STADE AT AUCELLAELV, THE FIRST WEICHSELIAN GLACIER ADVANCE IN SCORESBY SUND, EAST GREENLAND

The first major Weichselian ice advance in Scoresby Sund, during the A ucellaelv stage, deposited thick till beds along the coast of Jameson Land between > 107 ka and 140 ka, and is correlated with isotope subst age 5d in the marine record. This is shown by stream-cut sections at t he mouth of the Aucellaelv, Jameson Land, which contain a sequence of shallow marine, fluvial and glacigene sediments extending from the Sco resby Sund glaciation (approximate to Saalian) to the Flakkerhuk stade (Late Weichselian). The sequence is dated by palaeoceanographic corre lation with the deep-sea record, U/Th and luminescence dating, and cor related with the record in adjacent areas by mapping of marker horizon s, and by mollusc fauna assemblages and amino acid analyses.