The Holocene vegetational development of Tugtuligssuaq and Qeqertat, Northwest Greenland

• Main Author: Fredskild, Bent
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland /Danish Polar Center 1985
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Melville Bugt; Inglefield Bredning; Langesø; Cassiope tetragona; Melville bugt; Oxyria digyna; Qeqertat; Tugtuligssuaq
• Online Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/meddrgroenland_geosci/article/view/139675

Holocene pollen- and macrofossil diagrams from three high arctic lakes in Northwest Greenland are presented, and based on these the radiocarbon dated palaeovegetation zones (PY zones) are described. Two of the lakes are situated above the upper marine limit on the peninsula Tugtuligssuaq in Melville...