Late Holocene Environmental History and Norse Settlement in Outer Fjords from South Greenland: A Case Study at Lake Qallimiut

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Emilie Gauthier, Andrés Currás, Charly Massa, Typhaine Guillemot, Hervé Richard, Vincent Bichet
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: South Greenland; late Holocene; lacustrine sediments; pollen analysis; Norse settlement; Warm medieval period; Little Ice Age; Greenland; Qallimiut; Vatnahverfi; Dwarf birch
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13040123

To complement discussions about vegetation history and climate variations in south Greenland, especially during the Norse settlement, we developed a sedimentological multiproxy approach to study a 4300-year-old lacustrine core comprising pollen analysis, NPPs analysis, physical measurements (magneti...