Siliceous microfossils in a Holocene, High Arctic peat deposit (Nordvestø, northwestern Greenland)

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Brown, Kimberley M., Douglas, Marianne S. V., Smol, John P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1994
• Subjects: Plant Science; Arctic; Greenland; Nordvestø
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b94-029; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b94-029

Siliceous microfossils (diatom valves, chrysophyte stomatocysts, and testate amoebae plates) were examined from a 2.6-m thick peat deposit from Nordvestø, northwestern Greenland (76°44′N, 73° 13′W). The moss, predominantly Aplodon wormskioldii (Hornem.) R.Br., began to accumulate approximately 6500...