Pollen record from Muggesfelder See and Plussee in Germany

• Main Authors: Merkt, Josef, Müller, H H, Knabe, Wolfgang, Müller, Peter, Weiser, Thorolf
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Changes in the Geo-Biosphere during the last 15000 years; GeoBio15k; LakeSedNLfB; MU01; MU1; MU1_0; MU1_A+B; Muggesfelder See; PC_SM; Piston corer Streif/Merkt; PLU_A+C; PLU01; PLUA; PLUD; Plusssee; Sampling/drilling in lake; Faroe Islands; Four Lakes; Saksunarvatn
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735956; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.735956

A basaltic tephra layer consisting of brownish-olive glass shards. and about 0.2 mm thick. was found in cores from four lakes in northwest Germany. According to pollen analysis it was deposited during the early Boreal period (corresponding to about 8700 BP). The petrographic properties. the geochemical composition and the age agree with those of the Saksunarvatn tephra. which was first found on the Faroe Islands. The position of the tephra layer in the pollen stratigraphy and in the absolute time-scale is discussed. Procedures for locating the tephra in other cores are suggested.