The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends
In addition to being of interest to ancient Greek and Roman historians, the site of Philippi, NE Greece, has long been noted in Quaternary circles for providing the longest continuous European pollen record, spanning the last one million years. Here the original age model is re-evaluated and a new m...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:42224 2023-07-30T04:04:09+02:00 The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends Tzedakis, P.C. Hooghiemstra, H. Pälike, H. 2006-12 text https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/42224/ https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/42224/1/Tzedakis_etal_QSR2006.pdf en eng https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/42224/1/Tzedakis_etal_QSR2006.pdf Tzedakis, P.C., Hooghiemstra, H. and Pälike, H. (2006) The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25 (23-24), 3416-3430. (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.09.002 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.09.002>). Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.09.002 2023-07-09T20:49:42Z In addition to being of interest to ancient Greek and Roman historians, the site of Philippi, NE Greece, has long been noted in Quaternary circles for providing the longest continuous European pollen record, spanning the last one million years. Here the original age model is re-evaluated and a new marine-terrestrial correlation is proposed. An astronomical calibration procedure, based on a correspondence between changes in certain vegetation elements and March and June perihelion configurations, suggests that the base of the sequence extends back to 1.35 million years ago. The revised chronological framework for the Tenaghi Philippon sequence provides an opportunity to examine the long-term behaviour of individual taxa and vegetation trends within the context of global climate changes. Comparisons reveal a close correspondence between the terrestrial and marine records, in terms of orbital and suborbital variability. However, joint time-frequency analysis of the arboreal pollen record shows that the obliquity and eccentricity/precession signals persist into the ‘100-kyr’ and ‘41-kyr’ worlds, respectively, suggesting the operation of additional climate mechanisms that are independent of high-latitude glacial–interglacial effects. Unlike ice core and marine sequences, no change in the magnitude of interglacial tree population expansions is observed after the Mid-Brunhes Event. Instead, the Tenaghi Philippon record suggests a major shift in the vegetational composition of interglacials after MIS 16, with the establishment of forests of reduced diversity and a ‘modern’ appearance. Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Quaternary Science Reviews 25 23-24 3416 3430 |
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In addition to being of interest to ancient Greek and Roman historians, the site of Philippi, NE Greece, has long been noted in Quaternary circles for providing the longest continuous European pollen record, spanning the last one million years. Here the original age model is re-evaluated and a new marine-terrestrial correlation is proposed. An astronomical calibration procedure, based on a correspondence between changes in certain vegetation elements and March and June perihelion configurations, suggests that the base of the sequence extends back to 1.35 million years ago. The revised chronological framework for the Tenaghi Philippon sequence provides an opportunity to examine the long-term behaviour of individual taxa and vegetation trends within the context of global climate changes. Comparisons reveal a close correspondence between the terrestrial and marine records, in terms of orbital and suborbital variability. However, joint time-frequency analysis of the arboreal pollen record shows that the obliquity and eccentricity/precession signals persist into the ‘100-kyr’ and ‘41-kyr’ worlds, respectively, suggesting the operation of additional climate mechanisms that are independent of high-latitude glacial–interglacial effects. Unlike ice core and marine sequences, no change in the magnitude of interglacial tree population expansions is observed after the Mid-Brunhes Event. Instead, the Tenaghi Philippon record suggests a major shift in the vegetational composition of interglacials after MIS 16, with the establishment of forests of reduced diversity and a ‘modern’ appearance. |
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The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends |
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