During the Quaternary Period, Scandinavia's mountains were the source
for repeated glaciation that covered much of eastern, central and
western Europe. With a particular emphasis on Denmark, Norway, Sweden
and Finland, this text describes how these glaciations, and their
intervening warmer stages, affected Scandinavia and the surrounding
areas. In particular, this account focuses on the last cold stage, the
Weichselian, with its extensive Late Weichselian glaciation and the
subsequent deglaciation, and on the last 10,000 years, the Holocene,
with its well documented environmental changes. The Quaternary History
of Scandinavia provides a cross-frontier synthesis of how the glaciation
affected this vast region.