Peat initiation in the Faroe Islands : climate change, pedogenesis or human impact?

• Published in: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Authors: Lawson, Ian T., Church, Mike J., Edwards, Kevin J., Cook, Gordon T., Dugmore, Andrew J.
• Other Authors: University of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Blanket peat; Holocene; Norse; Pollen; Radiocarbon; Blanket mire formation; Human settlement; Radiocarbon calibration; Lateral expansion; Landscape change; Western Norway; Early holocene; Vegetation; Sediments; GE Environmental Sciences; SDG 13 - Climate Action; GE; Faroe Islands; Norway; Sandoy; Faroes
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5982; https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691007000035

As an isolated island group lying off the NW. European mainland which was uninhabited until the mid-first millennium AD, the Farces offer a unique opportunity to study natural processes of Holocene ecosystem development in a region where anthropogenic activity is usually a complicating factor. In th...