PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS, BOOKS AND SERIES AND SOME INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

 

·         Björck, S., Persson, T. & Kristersson, I. 1978: Comparison of two concentration methods for pollen in minerogenic sediments. GFF 100, 107-111.

 

·         Mörner, N.-A., Lagerlund, E. & Björck, S. 1981: Neotectonics in the Province of Blekinge. Z. Geomorph. N. F. Suppl.-Bd. 40, 55-60.

 

·         Björck, S. & Persson, T. 1981: Late Weichselian and Flandrian biostratigraphy and chronology from Hochstetter Forland, North-east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grönland, Geoscience 5,1-19.

 

·         Björck, S. 1981: A stratigraphic study of Late Weichselian deglaciation, shore displacement and vegetation history in south-eastern Sweden. Fossils and Strata 14, 1-93.

 

·         Björck, S., Dearing, J. A. & Jonsson, A. 1982: Magnetic susceptibility of Late Weichselian deposits in southeastern Sweden. Boreas 11, 99-111.

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1982: New 14C dates from Hunneberg supporting the revised deglaciation chronology of the Middle Swedish end moraine zone. GFF 103, 395‑404. 

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1982: Late Weichselian shore displacement at Hunneberg, southern Sweden, indicating complex uplift. GFF 104, 132-155.

 

·         Björck, S. & Håkansson, S. 1982: Radiocarbon dates from Late Weichselian lake sediments in South Sweden as a basis for chronostratigraphic subdivision. Boreas 11, 141-150.

 

·         Björck, S. & Keister, C. M. 1983: The Emerson Phase of Lake Agassiz, independently registered in northwestern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20, 1536-1542.

 

·         Björck, S. 1984: Bio- and chronostratigraphic significance of the Older Dryas Chronozone - on the basis of new radiocarbon dates. GFF 106, 81-91.

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1984: Climatic changes at Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in the Middle Swedish endmoraine zone, mainly inferred from stratigraphic indications. In (eds. N.-A. Mörner and W. Karlén) Climatic Changes on a Yearly to Millennial Basis, pp. 37-56. Reidel, Dordrecht. 

 

·         Hjort, C. & Björck, S. 1984: A re-evaluated glacial chronology for northern East Greenland. GFF 105, 235-243.

 

·         Björck, S. 1985: Deglaciation chronology and revegetation in northwestern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22, 850-871.

 

·         Björck, S. 1986: Comment on The Ancylus sea. GFF 108, 383-384.

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1986: Late Weichselian-Early Holocene shore displacement west of Mt. Billingen, within the Middle Swedish end-moraine zone. Boreas 15, 1-18.

 

·         Björck, S. & Sandgren, P. 1986: A 2000 year geomagnetic record from two Late Weichselian sequences in southeast Sweden. GFF 108,21-29.

 

·         Björck, S. 1987: The answer to the Ancylus enigma?‑Presentation of a working hypothesis. GFF 109, 171-176.

 

·         Björck, S., Sandgren, P. & Holmquist, B. 1987: A magnetostratigraphic comparison between 14C years and varve years during the Late Weichselian, indicating significant differences between the time‑scales. Journal of Quaternary Science 2, 133-140.

 

·         Björck, S. & Möller, P. 1987: Late Weichselian environmental history in southeastern Sweden during the deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet.Quaternary Research 28, 1-37.

 

·         Björck, S. & Dennegård, B. 1988: Preliminary stratigraphic studies on the Late Weichselian and Holocene development of the Hanö Bay, southeastern Sweden. Geographica Polonica 55, 51-62.

 

·         Björck, S., Berglund, B. E. & Digerfeldt, G. 1988: New aspects on the deglaciation chronology of South Sweden. Geographica Polonica 55, 37-49.

 

·         Sandgren, P. & Björck, S. 1988: Late Weichselian and Holocene palaeomagnetic studies in South Sweden. Geographica Polonica 55, 129-140.

 

·         Sandgren, P., Björck, S., Brunnberg, L. & Kristiansson, J. 1988: Palaeomagnetic records from two varved clay sequences in the Middle Swedish ice marginal zone. Boreas 17, 215-227.

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1989: Lake Mullsjön - a key site for understanding the final stage of the Baltic Ice Lake east of Mt. Billingen. Boreas 18, 209-219.

 

·         Björck, S. 1989: The geodynamic and geologic value of a regional network of shore displacement curves: examples from southern Sweden. GFF 111, 292-295.

 

·         Björck, S. 1990: Late Wisconsin history north of the Giants Range, Northern Minnesota, inferred from complex stratigraphy. Quaternary Research 33, 18-36.

 

·         Björck, S., Dennegård, B. & Sandgren, P. 1990: The marine stratigraphy of the Hanö Bay, SE Sweden, based on different sediment stratigraphic methods. GFF 112, 265-280.

 

·         Björck, S. 1990: Pleistocene climatic changes and consequences for radwaste disposal. GFF 112, 328.

 

·         Björck, S., Hjort, C., Ingolfsson, O. & Skog, G. 1991: Radiocarbon dates from the Antarctic Peninsula – problems and potential. In (ed. J. J. Lowe) Radiocarbon Dating: Recent Applications and Future Potential. Quaternary Proceedings No. 1, Quaternary Research Association, 55-65. Cambridge.

 

·         Björck, S., Håkansson, H., Zale, R., Karlén, W. & Liedberg Jönsson, B. 1991: A late Holocene lake sediment sequence from Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, with palaeoclimatic implications. Antarctic Science 3, 61-72.

 

·         Björck, S. & Digerfeldt, G. 1991: Alleröd-Younger Dryas sea level changes in southwestern Sweden and their relation to the Baltic Ice Lake development. Boreas 20, 115-133.

 

·         Björck, S. Sandgren, P. & Zale, R. 1991: Late Holocene Tephrochronology of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula. Quaternary Research 36, 322-328.

 

·         Björck, S., Malmer, N., Hjort, C., Sandgren, P., Ingólfsson, O., Wallén, B., Lewis Smith, R.  I. & Liedberg Jönsson, B. 1991: Stratigraphic and paleoclimatic studies of a 5500-year‑old moss bank on Elephant Island, Antarctica. Arctic and Alpine Research 23, 361-374.

 

·         Björck, S., Ingólfsson, O., Haflidason, H., Hallsdóttir, M. & Andersson, N. J. 1992: Lake Torfadalsvatn: a high resolution record of the North Atlantic ash zone I and the last glacial-interglacial environmental changes in Iceland. Boreas 21, 15-22.

 

·         Björck, S. & Svensson, N-O 1992: Climatic changes and uplift patterns - past,  present and future. SKB Technical Report 92-38, 74 pp.

 

·         Gee, D. G. & Björck, S 1992: The past is the key to the future - the next 100,000 years. Introduction and summary. GFF 114, 367-382.

 

·         Björck, S., Cato, I., Brunnberg, L. & Strömberg, B. 1992: The clay-varve based Swedish Time Scale and its relation to the Late Weichselian radiocarbon chronology. In (eds. E. Bard & W. S. Broecker) The last deglaciation: Absolute and radiocarbon chronologies. NATO ASI Series, Vol. 12, 25-44. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

 

·         Digerfeldt, G. Almendinger, J. E. & Björck, S. 1992: Reconstruction of past lake levels and their relation to groundwater hydrology in the Parkers Prairie sandplain, west-central Minnesota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 94, 99-118.

 

·         Björck, S. 1992: The Younger Dryas event - An enigmatic anomaly or a future analogue? GFF 114, 368-369.

 

·         Ingólfsson, O., Hjort, C., Björck, S. & Lewis Smith, R. I. 1992: Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial history of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Boreas 21, 209-222.

 

·         Hjort, C., Ingólfsson, O. & Björck, S. 1992: The last major deglaciation in the Antarctic Peninsula region -a review of recent Swedish Quaternary research. In (eds. Y. Yoshida et al.) Recent Progress in Antarctic Science, 741-743. Terra Scientific Publishing Company (TERRAPUB), Tokyo.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S., Possnert, G., Lemdahl, G., Olsson, S. & Svensson, N-O. 1993: AMS dating the Swedish varved clays of the last glacial/interglacial transition and the  potential/difficulties of calibrating Late Weichselian "absolute" chronologies. Boreas 21, 113-128.

 

·         Björck, S., Håkansson, H., Olsson, S., Barnekow, L. & Janssens, J. 1993:  Palaeoclimatic studies in South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, based on numerous stratigraphic variables in lake sediments. Journal of  Paleolimnology 8, 233-272.

 

·         Berglund, B. E., Bergsten, H., Björck, S., Kolstrup, E., Lemdahl, G. & Nordberg, K. 1994: Late Weichselian environmental change in southern Sweden and Denmark. Journal of Quaternary Science 9, 127-132.

 

·         Lowe, J. J., Ammann, B., Birks, H. H., Björck, S., Coope, G. R., Cwynar, L., De Beaulieu, J.-L., Mott, R. J., Peteet, D. M. & Walker, M. J. C. 1994: Climatic changes in areas adjacent  to the North Atlantic during the Last glacial-integlacial transition (14-9 ka BP): a Contribution to IGCP 253. Journal of Quaternary Science 9, 185-198.

 

·         Ingólfsson, O., Lyså, A., Funder, S., Möller, P. & Björck, S. 1994: The Late Quaternary glacial history of, the central west coast of Jameson Land, East Greenland. Boreas 23, 447- 458.

 

·         Björck, S., Wohlfarth, B., Bennike, O., Hjort, C. & Persson, T. 1994: Revision of the early Holocene chronology and event stratigraphy in Hochstetter Forland, NE Greenland, based on lake sediments. Boreas 23, 513-424.

 

·         Björck, S., Bennike, O., Ingólfsson, O., Barnekow, L. & Penney, D. N. 1994: The stratigraphy of Lake Boksehandsken's earliest post-glacial sediments: palaeoenvironmental implications for Jameson Land, East Greenland. Boreas 13, 459-472.

 

·         Berglund, B. E. & Björck, S. 1994: Late Weichselian and Holocene shore displacement in Blekinge, SE Sweden. Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Geografia XXVII, Nauki Matematyczno-Przyrodnicze, Zeszyt 92, 75-95.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S., Holmqvist, B., Lemdahl, G. & Ising, J. 1994: Ice recession and depositional environment in the Blekinge archipelago of the Baltic Ice Lake. GFF 116, 3-12.

 

·         Björck, S. 1995: A review of the history of the Baltic Sea, 13.0-8.0 ka BP. Quaternary International 27, 19-40.

 

·         Björck, S., Wohlfart, B. & Possnert, G. 1995: 14C AMS measurements from the Late Weichselian part of the Swedish Timescale. Quaternary International 27, 11-18.

 

·         Lowe, JJ et al. 1995: Paleoclimates of the North-Atlantic seaboards during the last glacial/interglacial transition. Quaternary International 28, 51-61.

 

·         Björck, S. 1995: Late Weichselian/Early Preboreal development of the Öresund Strait; a key area for northerly mammal immigration. In (ed. L. Larsson) The Earliest Settlement of Scandinavia and its relationship to the neighbouring areas. Acta Arcaeologica Lundensia 8:24, 83-94.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S. & Possnert, G. 1995: The Swedish Time Scale: a potential calibration tool for the radiocarbon time scale during the Late Weichselian. Radiocarbon 37, 347-359.

 

·         Björck, S. 1995: Late Weichselian to early Holocene development of the Baltic Sea - with implications for coastal settlements in the southern Baltic region. In (A. Fischer, ed.) Man and Sea in the Mesolithic. Coastal settlements above and below present sea level, 23-34. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S., Possnert, G. & Brunnberg, L. 1995: A comparison between radiocarbon dated Late Weichselian calendar-year chronologies. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 17: Climate, sea levels and sedimentation, 45-48.

 

·         Håkansson, H., Olsson, S. & Björck, S. 1996: Diatom record and sediment chemistry of a shallow glaciolacustrine basin on James Ross Island, Antarctica. In  Landscapes and Life, Studies in honour of Urve Miller, PACT 50 -IV.6, 417-430.

 

·         Björck, S., Olsson, S., Ellis-Evans, C., Håkansson, H., Humlum, O. & De Lirio, J. M. 1996: Late Holocene palaeoclimatic records from James Ross Island, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 121, 195-220.

 

·         Houmark-Nielsen, M., Bennike, O. & Björck, S. 1996: Terrestrial biotas and environmental changes during the late Middle Weichselian in north Jylland, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 43, 169-176.

 

·         Björck, S., Kromer, B, Johnsen, S., Bennike, O., Hammarlund, D., Lemdahl, G., Possnert, G., Rasmussen, T. L., Wohlfarth, B., Hammer, C. U. & Spurk, M. 1996: Synchronized Terrestrial-Atmospheric Deglacial Records Around the North Atlantic. Science 274, 1155-1160.

 

·         Björck, S. & Zale, R. 1996: Late Holocene tephrochronology and palaeoclimate, based on lake sediment studies. In López-Martínez, J., Thomson, M. R. A., Martínez de Pisón, E. and others (Eds.) Geomorphological map of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island. BAS GEOMAP Series Sheet 5-A, 43-48. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.

 

·         Björck, S., Hjort, C., Ingólfsson, O., Zale, R. and Ising, J. 1996: Holocene deglaciation chronology from lake sediments. In López-Martínez, J., Thomson, M. R. A., Martínez de Pisón, E. & others (Eds.) Geomorphological map of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island. BAS GEOMAP Series Sheet 5-A, 49-51. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.

 

·         Jiang, H., Björck, S. & Knudsen, K. L. 1997: A palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic record of the last 11,000 14C years from the Skagerrak-Kattegat, northeastern Atlantic margin. The Holocene 7, 301-310.

 

·         Rundgren, M., Ingolfsson, Björck, S., Jiang, H., & Haflidason, H. 1997: Dynamic sea-level change during the last deglaciation of northern Iceland. Boreas 16, 201-215.

 

·         Israelson, C., Björck, S., Hawkesworth, C. J. & Possnert, G. 1997: Direct U-Th dating of organic- and carbonate-rich lake sediments from southern Scandinavia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 153, 251-263.

 

·         Björck, S., Rundgren, M., Ingólfsson, Ó. & Funder, S. 1997: The Preboreal oscillation around the Nordic Seas: terrestrial and lacustrine responses. Journal of Quaternary Science 12, 455-466.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S. & Cato, I. 1997: A new middle Holocene varve diagram from the river Ångermanälven, northern Sweden: indications for a possible error in the Holocene varve chronology. Boreas 26, 347-354.

 

·         Ingólfsson, O., Björck, S., Haflidason, H. & Rundgren, M. 1997: Glacial and climatic events in Iceland reflecting regional North Atlantic climatic shifts during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Quaternary Science Reviews 16, 1135-1144.

 

  • Björck, S. & Duplessy, J-C. 1997: Climate change & Quaternary Geology. In L. King-Clayton, N. Chapman, L. O. Ericsson & F. Kautsky (eds.) Glaciation and Hydrogeology. SKI Report 97:13, 23-32.

 

·         Jiang, H., Björck, S. & Svensson, N.-O. 1998: Reconstruction of Holocene sea surface salinity in the Skagerrak-Kattegatt: a climatic and environmental record of Scandinavia. Journal of Quaternary Science 13, 107-114.

 

·         Björck, S., Bennike, O., Possnert, G., Wohlfarth, B. & Digerfeldt, G. 1998: A high-resolution 14C dated sediment sequence from southwest Sweden: age comparisons between different components of the sediment. Journal of Quaternary Science 13, 85-89.

 

·         Israelson, C., Björck, S., Hawkesworth, C. J. & Noe-Nygaard, N. 1998: Uranium-series isotopes from Eemian lake deposits, Hollerup, Denmark. Bulletin Geological Society of Denmark 44, 173-179.

 

·         Wastegårdh, S., Björck, S., Possnert, G. & Wohlfarth, B. 1998: Evidence for the occurrence of Vedde Ash in Sweden: radiocarbon and calendar age estimates. Journal of Quaternary Science 13, 271-274.

 

·         Jiang, H., Svensson, N-O. & Björck, S. 1998: Meltwater discharge to the Kattegatt-Skagerrak from the Baltic Ice Lake during the Younger Dryas interval. Quaternary Research 49, 264-270.

 

·         Björck, S., Walker, M. J. C., Cwynar, L., Johnsen, S., Knudsen, K-L., Lowe, J. J., Wohlfarth, B. & INTIMATE members 1998: An event stratigraphy for the last termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice-core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group. Journal of Quaternary Science 13, 283-292.

 

·         Novak, B. & Björck, S. 1998: Marine seismic studies in southern Kattegatt, with special emphasis on longitudinal bars and their possible relationship to the drainage of the Ancylus Lake. GFF 120, 293-302.

 

·         Ingolfsson, O., Hjort, C., Berkman, P.A., Björck, S., Colhoun, E., Goodwin, I.D., Hall, B., Hirakawa, K., Melles, M., Möller, P. & Prentice, M.L. 1998: Antarctic glacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum: an overview of the record on land. Antarctic Science 10, 326-344.

 

·         Berkman, P.A., Andrews, J.T., Björck, S., Colhoun, E.A., Emslie, S.D., Goodwin, I.D., Hall, B.L., Hart, C.P., Hirakawa, K., Igarashi, A., Ingolfsson, O., Lopez-Martinez, J., Lyons, W.B., Mabin, M.C.G., Quilty, P.G., Taviani, M. & Yoshida, Y. 1998: Circum-Antarctic coastal environmental shifts during the Late Quaternary reflected by emerged marine deposits. Antarctic Science 10, 345-362.

 

·         Goslar, T., Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S., Possnert, G. & Björck, J. 1999: Variations of atmospheric 14C concentrations over the Allerød - Younger Dryas transition. Climate Dynamics 15, 29-42.

 

·         Hjort, C., Björck, S., Ingólfsson, Ó. & Möller, P. 1998: Holocene deglaciation and climate history of the northern Antarctic Peninsula region: a discussion of correlations between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Annals of Glaciology 27, 110-112.

 

·         Wohlfart, B., Björck, S., Possnert, G. & Holmquist, B. 1998: An 800-year long, radiocarbon dated varve chronology from south-eastern Sweden. Boreas 27, 243-258.

 

·         Bennike, O., Björck, S., Böcher, J., Hansen, L., Heinemeier, J. & Wohlfarth, B.1999: Early Holocene plant and animal remains from Northeast Greenland. Journal of Biogeography 26, 667-677.

 

·         Hammarlund, D., Edwards, T. W. D., Björck, S., Buchardt, B. and Wohlfarth, B. 1999: Climate and environment during the Younger Dryas (GS-1) as reflected by composite stable isotope records of lacustrine carbonates at Torreberga, southern Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 13, 17-28.

 

·         Walker, M.J.C., Björck, S., Lowe, J.J., Cwynar, L.C., Johnsen, S., Knudsen, K-L., Wohlfarth, B. and the INTIMATE group 1999: Isotopic events’ in the GRIP ice core: a stratotype for the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 18, 1143-1150.

 

·         Björck, S., Noe-Nygaard, N., Wolin, J., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Hansen, H.J. & Snowball, I. 2000: Eemian lake development, hydrology and climate - a multistratigraphic study of the Hollerup site in Denmark. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 509-536.

 

·         Andresen, C.S., Björck, S., Bennike, O., Heinemeier, J. & Kromer, B. 2000: What do Δ14C changes across the Gerzensee oscillation/GI-1b event imply for deglacial oscillations?.  Journal of Quaternary Science 15, 203-214.

 

·         Bennike, O. & Björck, S. 2000: Lake sediment coring in South Greenland in 1999. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 186, 60-64.

 

·         Bennike, O., Björck, S., Böcher, J. & Walker, I. R. 2000: The Quaternary arthropod fauna of Greenland: a review with new data. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 47, 111-134.

 

·         Björck, S. 2000: The diverse character of glacial and interglacial climatic signals in different records around the North Atlantic: common causes or a variety of triggers. In (ed. P. Sandgren) Environmental changes in Fennoscandia during the Late Quaternary, 96-105. LUNDQUA Report 37.

 

 

  • Christensen, J. Q. & Björck, S. 2001: Digital sediment colour analyses, DSCA, of lake

·         sediments - pitfalls and potentials. Journal of Paleolimnology 25, 531-538.

 

·         Onac, B.P., Björkman, L., Björck, S., Clichichi, O., Tudor, T., Peate, D. & Wohlfarth, B. 2001: The first dated Eemian lacustrine deposit in Romania. Quaternary Research 56, 62-65.

 

·         Walker, M.J.C., Björck, S. & Lowe, J.J. 2001: Integration of ice core, marine and terrestrial records (INTIMATE) from around the North Atlantic region. An introduction. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1169-1174.

 

·         Lowe, J.J., Hoek, W.Z. & INTIMATE group 2001: Inter-regional correlation of paleoclimatic records for the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition: a protocol for improved precision recommended by the INTIMATE project group. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1175-1187.

 

·         Björck, S., Lowe, J.J. & Walker, M.J.C. (eds.) 2001: Integration of ice core, marine and terrestrial records of Termination 1 from the North Atlantic region. Quaternary Science Reviews 20.

 

·         Grauert, M., Björck, S. & Bondevik, S. 2001: Storegga tsunami deposits in a coastal lake on Suđuroy, the Faroe Islands. Boreas 30, 263-271.

 

·         Björck, S., Muscheler, R., Kromer, B., Andresen, C.S., Heinemeier, J., Johnsen, S.J., Conley, D., Koç, N., Spurk, M. & Veski, S. 2001: High-resolution analyses of an early Holocene climate event may imply decreased solar forcing as an important climate trigger. Geology 29 (12), 1107-1110.

 

  • Björck, S. & Wohlfarth, B. 2001: 14C chronostratigraphic techniques in paleolimnology. In: Last, W. M. & J. P. Smol (eds.), Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Volume 1: Basin Analysis, Coring, and Chronological Techniques, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, p. 205-245.

 

 

·         Bennike, O. & Björck, S. 2002: Chronology of the last recession of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science 17, 211-219.

 

  • Novak, B. and Björck, S., 2002. Late Pleistocene - early Holocene fluvialfacies and depositional processes in the Fehmarn Belt, between Germany and Denmark, revealed by high-resolution seismic and lithofacies analysis. Sedimentology 49, 451-466.

 

  • Björck, S., Bennike, O., Rosén, P., Andresen, C. S., Bohncke, S., Kaas, E. & Conley, D. 2002: Anomalously mild Younger Dryas summer conditions in southern Greenland. Geology 30 (5), 427-430.

 

·         Hammarlund, D., Björck, S. Buchardt, B., Israelson, C. & Thomsen, C.T. 2003: Rapid hydrological changes during the Holocene revealed by stable isotope records of lacustrine carbonates from Lake Igelsjön, southern Sweden. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 353-370.

 

·         Björck, S., Koç, N. & Skog, G. 2003: Consistently large marine reservoir ages in the Norwegian Sea during the Last Deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 429-436.

 

·         Rundgren, M. & Björck, S. 2003: Late-glacial and early Holocene variations in atmospheric CO2  concentration indicated by high-resolution stomatal index data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 213, 191-204.

 

·         Hjort, C., Ingolfsson, O., Bentley, M. J. & Björck, S. 2003: The Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial and climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula region as documented by the land and lake sediment records – a review. In Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability, Antarctic Research Series 79, 95-102. American Geophysical Union.

 

·         Novak; B. & Björck, S. 2003: Late Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphy in a corridor between Fehmarn, Germany and Lolland, Denmark, revealed by decimetre scale resolution seismic and  lithofacies analysis. In: Feeser, V. (ed), Engineer Geological Conference, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, 185-194.

 

·         van deer Plicht, J, van Geel, B., Bohncke, S. J. P., Bos, J. A.. A.., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A. O. M., Muscheler, R. & Björck, S. 2004: The Preboreal climate reversal and a subsequent solar-forced climate shift. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 263-269.

 

·         Novak, B. & Björck, S. 2004: A Late Pleistocene transgression in the Fehmarn Belt, southwestern Baltic Sea. International Journal of Earth Science (Geol Rundschau) 93, 634-644.

 

·         Björck, S. & Clemmensen, L. 2004: Aeolian sediments in raised bog deposits, Halland, SW Sweden: a new proxy record of Holocene winter storminess variation in southern Scandinavia. The Holocene 14, 677-688.

 

·         Björck, S. 2004: A reply to the comment by J.D. Peacock. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1199-1200.

 

·         Ljung, K. & Björck, S. 2004: A lacustrine record of the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in southernmost Greenland. GFF 126, 273-278.

 

·         Andresen, C.S., Björck, S., Bennike, O. & Bond, G. 2004: Holocene climate changes in southern Greenland: evidence from lake sediments. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 783-795.

 

·         Andresen, C. S., Bond, G., Kuijpers, A., Knutz, P. & Björck, S. 2005: Holocene climate variability at multidecadal time scales detected by sedimentological indicators in a shelf core NW off Iceland. Marine Geology 214, 323-338.

 

·         Wastegård, S., Björck, S., Greve, C. & Rasmussen, T. 2005: A tephra-based correlation between the Faroe Islands and the Norwegian Sea raises questions about chronological relationships during the last interglacial. Terra Nova 17, 7-12.

 

·         Andresen, C.S. & Björck, S. 2005: Holocene climate variability in the Denmark Strait region – a land-sea correlation of new and existing climate proxy records. Geografiska Annaler 87 A (1), 157-172.

 

·         Jessen, C., Rundgren, M., Björck, S. & Hammarlund, D. 2005: Abrupt climatic changes and an unstable transition into a late Holocene Thermal Decline: a multiproxy lacustrine record from southern Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 20, 1-14.

 

  • Hammarlund, D., Björck, S., Buchardt, B. & Thomsen, C.T. 2005: Limnic responses to increased effective humidity during the 8200 cal yr BP cooling event in Southern Sweden. Journal of Paleolimnology 33, in press.

 

  • van Leuwen, J.F.N., Schäfer, H., van der Knaap, W.O., Rittenour, T., Björck, S. & Ammann, B. 2005: Native or introduced? Fossil pollen and spores may say. An example from the Azores Islands. In Nentwig, W. et al. (Eds): Biological Invasions – From Ecology to Control. NEOBIOTA 6, 27-34.

 

  • Rundgren, M., Björck, S. & Hammarlund, D. 2005: Last interglacial atmospheric CO2 changes from stomatal index data and their relation to climate variations. Global and Planetary Change 49, 47-62.

 

  • Björck, S., Rittenour, T., Rosén, P., França, Z., Möller, P., Snowball, I., Wastegård, S., Bennike, O. & Kromer, B. 2006: A Holocene lacustrine record in the central North Atlantic: proxies for volcanic activity, short-term NAO mode variability and long-term precipitation changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 9-32.

 

  • Sparrenbom, C. J., Bennike, O., Björck, S. & Lambeck, K. 2006: Holocene relative sea-level changes in the Qaqortoq area, southern Greenland. Boreas 35, 171-187.

 

·         Sparrenbom, C.J., Bennike, O., Björck, S. & Lambeck, K. 2006: Relative sea level changes since 15,000 yrs BP in the Nanortalik area, southern Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Sciences 87, 19-48.

 

  • Lindén, M., Möller, P., Björck, S. & Sandgren, P. 2006: Holocene shore displacement and deglaciation chronology in Norrbotten, Sweden. Boreas 35, 1-22.

 

  • Andresen, C. S., Björck, S., Rundgren, M., Conley, D. & Jessen, C. 2006: Rapid Holocene climate changes in the North Atlantic: evidence from lake sediments from the Faroe Islands. Boreas 35, 23-34.

 

  • Hiang, H., Björck, S., Ran, L., Huang, Y. & Li, J. 2006: Impact of the Kuroshio Current on the South China Sea based on a 115000 year diatom record. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 377-385.

 

  • Houmark-Nielsen, M., Björck, S. & Wohlfarth, B. 2006: ‘Cosmogenic 10Be ages on the Pomeranian Moraine, Poland’: Comments. Boreas 35, 600-604.

 

  • Ljung, K., Björck, S., Hammarlund, D. & Barnekow, L. 2006: Late Holocene multi-proxy records of environmental change on the South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha. Paleogeography, paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 241, 539-560.

 

  • De Jong, R., Björck, S., Björkman, L. & Clemmensen, L. B. 2006: Storminess variation during the last 6500 years as reconstructed from an ombrotrophic peat bog in Halland, southwest Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 905-919.

 

  • Björck, S. 2006: Younger Dryas oscillation, global evidence. In Elias, S. A. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Volume 3, 1987-1994. Elsevier B.V., Oxford.

 

·         Jessen, C. A., Rundgren, M., Björck, S. & Muscheler, R. 2007. Climate forced CO2 variability in the early Holocene: a stomatal frequency reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change 57, 247-260.

  • De Jong R, Schoning K. & Björck S, 2007. Increased aeolian activity during climatic regime shifts as recorded in a raised bog in southwest Sweden during the past 1700 years. Climate of the Past 3, 411-422.

 

·         Ljung, K., Björck, S., Muscheler, R., Beer, J. & Kubik, P. W. 2007: Variable 10Be fluxes in lacustrine sediments from Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic: a solar record? Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 829-835.

 

·         Jakobsson, M., Björck, S., Alm, G., Andrén, T., Lindeberg, G. & Svensson, N-O. 2007: Reconstructing the Younger Dryas ice dammed lake in the Baltic Basin: Bathymetry, area and volume. Global and Planetary Change, 355-370.

 

·         Veres, D., Wohlfarth, B., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Björck, S., De Beaulieu, JL., Digerfeldt,., Ponel, P., Ampel, L. Davies, S., Gandouin, E. and Belmecheri, S. 2007: The lithostratigraphy of the Les Echets basin, France: tentative correlation between cores. Boreas 36, 326-340.

 

·         Kortekaas, M., Murray, A. S., Sandgren, P. & Björck, S. 2007: OSL chronology for a sediment core from the southern Baltic Sea: a continuous record since deglaciation. Quaternary Geochronology 2, 95-101.

 

·         Andresen, C.S., Björck, S., Jessen, C. & Rundgren, M. 2007: Early Holocene terrestrial climate variability along a North Atlantic island transect: palaeoceanographic implications. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 1989-1998.

 

·         Ljung, K. & Björck, S. 2007: Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics on Nightingale Island, South Atlantic – an apparent interglacial bipolar seesaw in action? Quaternary Science Reviews, 3150-3166.

 

·         Ljung, K., Björck, S., Renssen, H. & Hammarlund, D. 2007: South Atlantic Island record reveals a South Atlantic response to the 8.2 kyr event. Climate of the Past Discussions 3, 729-735.

 

·         Björck, S., Andrén, T. & Jensen, J. B. 2008: An attempt to resolve the partly conflicting data and ideas on the Ancylus-Littorina transition. Polish Geological Institute Special Papers 23, 21-25.  

 

·         Björck, S. 2008: The late Quaternary development of the Baltic Sea basin. In The BACC Author Team (Eds.): Assessment of climate change for the Baltic Sea Basin, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 398-407.

 

  • Walker, M, Johnsen, S., Rasmussen, S. O., Steffensen, J-P., Popp, T., Gibbard, P., Hoek, W., Lowe, J., Andrews, J., Björck, S., Cwynar, L., Hughen, K., Kershaw, P., Kromer, B., Litt, T., Lowe, D. J., Nakagawa, T., Newnham, R., & Schwander, J. 2008: The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) and Global Standard Stratigraphic Age (GSSA) for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) in the NGRIP ice core. Episodes 31, in press.

 

  • Lowe, J.J., Rasmussen, S.O., Björck, S., Hoek, W.Z., Steffensen, J.P., Walker, M.J.C., Yu, Z. and the INTIMATE group. 2008: Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental events in the North Atlantic region during the Last Termination: a revised protocol recommended by the INTIMATE group. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 6-17.

 

  • Wohlfarth, B., Björck, S., Funder, S., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Ólafur Ingólfsson, Lunkka, J-P., Mangerud, J., Saarnisto, M. & Vorren, T. 2008: Quaternary of Norden. Episodes 31, in press.

 

  • Wastegård, S., Rundgren, M., Schoning, K., Andersson, S., Björck, S., Borgmark, A. & Possnert, G. 2008: Age, geochemistry and distribution of the mid-Holocene Hekla-S/Kebister tephra. The Holocene 18, 557-567.

 

  • Wohlfarth, B., Veres, D., Ampel, L., Lacourse, T., Blaauw, M., Preusser, F., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Kéravis, D., Lallier-Vergès, E., Björck, S., Davies, S. M., de Beaulieu, J-L., Risberg, J., Hormes, A., Kasper, H. U., Possnert, G., Reille, M., Thouveny, N. & Zander, A. 2008 Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in Western Europe, 40-16 kyr BP. Geology 36, in press.

 

·         Muscheler, R., Kromer, B., Björck, S., Svensson, A., Friedrich, M., Kaiser, K. F. & Southon, J. 2008: Tree rings and ice cores reveal 14C calibration uncertainties during the Younger Dryas. Nature Geoscience 1, in press.

 

POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLES and some BOOK REVIEWS

 

  • Björck, S. & Möller, P. 1977: Utvecklingshistorisk beskrivning av Ådalen vid  Jämjö. Blekinges Natur 1977, 57-75.

 

  • Björck, S. 1980: Det senistida utvecklingsförloppet i Blekinge. Blekinges Natur 1980, 87-106.

 

  • Björck, S. 1984: Review on "Geologkonsult: Grusinventering i Skaraborgs län. Länsstyrelsen i Skaraborgs län. Meddelanden 6/82." Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 106, p. 278.

 

  • Björck, S. 1989: A classic North American research area. Boreas 18, 341‑342.

 

  • Björck, S. 1991: Vattentagen. Ord & Bild 1991, Nummer 4, 93-94. Göteborg.

 

  • Björck, S. 1992: A wealth of paleoclimatological information - in addition, free of charge! Boreas 21, 14.

 

  • Björck, S. & Svensson, N.-O. 1992: Challenging problems in land-sea interactions. Boreas 21, 190-191.

 

  • Björck, S. 1993: Review on "Robertsson, A-M., Ringberg, B., Miller, U. &  Brunnberg, L. (eds.), 1992: Quaternary Stratigraphy, Glacial Morphology and  Environmental Changes." Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 115, 281-282.

 

·         Berglund, B. E. & Björck, S. 1993: Ice through the Ages. In G. Burenhult (ed.) The First Humans, Human Origins and History to 10,000 BC, 82-83. Weldon Owens Pty Limited, Sydney. (In addition a Swedish version also exists).

 

·         Björck, S. & Svensson, N.-O. 1994: Östersjöns och västerhavets utveckling. Berg och Jord,  Svensk Nationalatlas, 138-142. (In addition an English version also exists).

 

·         Björck, S. & Hjort, C. 1994: En försvunnen värld. Fauna och Flora 1994:2, 41-46.

 

·         Björck, S. 1995: Danmark - i ett globalt perspektiv. Varv 1995, 57-59.

 

·         Björck, S. 1996: Den dynamiske istid. Varv nr. 3, 77-104.

 

·         Björck, S. 1996: Den dynamiska istiden: skeenden för mer än 11000 år sedan ger nya kunskaper om klimatet. Naturvetenskapliga Forskningsrådets Årsbok 1996, 107-120.

 

·         Björck, S. 1997: Den dynamiska istiden. Berg- & Dalbladet 17: 3-4, 3-24.

 

·         Björck, S. & Ingolfsson, O. 2001: Senkvartär glaciations- och klimathistoria kring Antarktiska Halvön - i sällskap med orkaner och elefantsälar. Årsboken Ymer 2001, 153-168.

 

·         Björck, S. & Sparrenbom, C.J. 2003: Relative sea level changes in the southern Greenland sector after the last glacial maximum. Polarforskningssekretariatet, Årsbok 2002, 70-74.

 

·         Bennike, O., Björck, S., Hammarlund, D. & Ljung, K. 2005: Tristan da Cunha. Naturens Verden 88 (7/8), 10-23.

 

·         Bennike, O., Sparrenbom Jönsson, C. & Björck, S. 2006: Strandforskydning i Grønland. Tidsskriftet Grønland 5, 188-202.

 

·         Wohlfarth, B. & Björck, S. 2007: Vart är klimatet på väg? Framtider nr 1/2007, 4-11.

 

·         Björck, S., Hjort, C., Ljung, K., Möller, P. & Wohlfarth, B. 2007: Isla de los Estados – Quaternary geology and palaeoclimatology at the end of the world. Polarforskningssekretariatets Årsbok 2006, 44-49.

 

·         Rundgren, M. & Björck, S. 2007: Klimatet under kvartärtiden – vinglig resa, många förare: Geologiskt Forum 14 (53), 10-15.

 

·         Zillén, L., Conley, D. & Björck, S. 2007: Ibland är syrebrist ett normalt tillstånd. Geologiskt Forum 14 (56), 20-23.

 

  • Björck, S. 2008: Jordens föränderliga klimat. Geologiskt Forum 15, 26-29.