Pollen profile AMTKEL, Amtkel, Georgia

• Main Authors: Kvavadze, Eliso V, Rukhadze, L P, Tretyak, P R, Petrenko, L V
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1987
• Subjects: Abies nordmanniana; Acer; Alismataceae; Alnus; AMTKEL; Georgia; Artemisia; Betula; Blechnum spicant; Botrychium lunaria; Campanula; Carpinus betulus; Carpinus orientalis; Caryophyllaceae; Castanea sativa; Cerealia-type; Chenopodiaceae; Compositae; Corylus; Cyperaceae; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Diphasium alpinum; Dipsacaceae; Equisetum; Fagus orientalis; Fraxinus; Geraniaceae; Gramineae; Hippophae; Huperzia selago; Ilex; Indeterminable: unknown; Juglans regia; Labiatae; Laurocerasus; Leguminosae; Ligustrum; Liliaceae; Lonicera; Lycopodium clavatum; Lycopodium undifferentiated; Onagraceae; Osmunda regalis; Picea orientalis; Pinus; Plantaginaceae; Plumbaginaceae; Polygonaceae
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.738965; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.738965

The rock mass of fluvial and fluvioglacial deposits of the Late Holocene has been studied at the altitude of 1830 m a.s.l. using the palynologic, carpologic, geomorphologic, and geochronologic methods. It was ascertained that in the mid-Subatlantic period the area of the present-day beech elfin woodland was occupied by a belt of alpine meadows. Thus, the lower border of alpine meadows ran 370-400 m lower than the recent level, pointing to a rather significant cooling of the climate that occurred from ca 2nd cent. A.D.