Summing up: half a century of Quaternary geology

The main part of the survey deals with studies of the Quaternary of Finland, starting with pollen stratigraphical problems, particularly of the Late Weichselian and the dating of the deglaciation, but also of the Holocene history, follewed by a description of the identification and dating of land/sea level changes, which eventually lead to the construction of a shoreline profile across Fennoscandia from Estonia over Finland and Sweden to the coast of Norway. Topics of archaeology, glacial geology and Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed.