The late Holocene coastal dunefield at Vejers, Denmark: characteristics, sand budget and depositional dynamics

Environmental controls on coastal dune formation; Skallingen Spit, Denmark

“…At Lodbjerg, activity occurred between 1100 and 1850 AD with a peak around 1700 AD (Clemmensen et al, 2001a) whereas Christiansen et al (1990) inferred a period of enhanced activity during 1450-1750 AD in Northern Jutland. At Vejers, on the southwest coast of Denmark, four separate dune building phases occurred in the period 1550-1850 (Clemmensen et al, 1996). Klijn (1990) identified two periods of transgressive dune activity in Holland around 1300-1600 AD and again 1750-1850 AD.…”

Climate control on late Holocene high-energy sedimentation along coasts of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean

“…Onshore, HSPs are associated with the widespread formation of massive aeolian dune fields and coversands stretching along the coasts of western Europe (Alexanderson and Bernhardson, 2016;Bateman and Godby, 2004;Clarke et al, 2002;Clarke and Rendell, 2006;Clemmensen et al, 1996;Clemmensen and Murray, 2006;Clemmensen et al, 2009;Costas et al, 2013Costas et al, , 2012Costas et al, , 2016Gilbertson et al, 1999;Jelgersma et al, 1995;Nielsen et al, 2016;Sommerville et al, 2007;van Vliet-Lanoë et al, 2016;Wilson and Braley, 1997;Wilson et al, 2004), also recorded as the deposition of thin windblown quartz layers over soils (Jackson et al, 2005) and peat bogs (Björck and Clemmensen, 2004;de Jong et al, 2006de Jong et al, , 2007Kylander et al, 2016;Orme et al, 2015Orme et al, , 2016Sjögren, 2009;Tisdall et al, 2013). Aeolian activity was initiated during the last glacial termination (Costas et al, 2016) that gave rise to the periglacial "European Sand Belt" (Zeeberg, 2008), the most recent phase of dune formation being the LIA.…”

The termination of the last major phase of aeolian sand movement, coastal dunefields, Denmark

“…Most of these dunefields contain stabilized parabolic dunes (e.g. Clemmensen et al, 1996Clemmensen et al, , 2001a. These parabolic dunes are typically situated in the central and marginal (downwind) parts of the coastal dunefields.…”