Pollen and macrofossil evidence of Late Pleistocene and Holocene treeline fluctuations from an alpine lake in Colorado, USA

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Anderson, R Scott
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2012
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Parkland; Alpine Lake; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612450199; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683612450199; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683612450199

High-resolution pollen, plant macrofossil and magnetic susceptibility (MS) data are presented from an alpine lake sediment core from west-central Colorado, recording changes in vegetation and sedimentation for the latest Pleistocene and Holocene ( c. the last 12.5 ka; 1 ka = 1000 cal. yr BP). During...