Post-glacial pollen record from Yorkshire

DOI

The stratigraphy and pollen analysis of the deposits show that this is a lake basin which during the Late-glacial period was partially filled by lake clays and muds. One of the main interests of the pollen diagrams lies in the division of zone i into three suh-zones showing a minor climatic oscillation which seems to be comparable with the Boiling oscillation of northern Europe. During Post-glacial time the greater part of the deposits has been muds but on one side a fen developed which in early zone VI was sufficiently dry to support birch and pine wood. Later in zone VI the water table must have risen slightly because the fen peats were gradually covered by a rather oxidized mud suggesting that the fen became replaced by a shallow swamp with a widely fluctuating water table. In the Atlantic period the basin was reflooded and the more central deposits were covered by a layer of mud. Later in the central region, swamp and eventually Sphagnum bog communities developed. The whole area is now covered by a sihy soil and forms a flat meadowland.

Supplement to: Bartley, David D (1962): The stratigraphy and pollen analysis of lake deposits near Tadcaster, Yorkshire. New Phytologist, 61(3), 277-287

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.759966
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1962.tb06298.x
Related Identifier http://www.jstor.org/stable/2433617
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.759966
Provenance
Creator Bartley, David D
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1962
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-1.233 LON, 53.883 LAT); Tadcaster, United Kingdom