A pre-Late Devensian pollen site from Camp Fauld, Buchan, north-east Scotland

• Published in: New Phytologist
• Main Authors: Whittington, G., Hall, A. M., Jarvis, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Buchan; Tundra
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/a-prelate-devensian-pollen-site-from-camp-fauld-buchan-northeast-scotland(c8b9137e-f8be-42dd-8bbb-136b7debbef4).html; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03935.x

Recent investigations at Camp Fauld in Buchan, Scotland have yielded two peat deposits of pre-late Devensian age. Percentage pollen diagrams are presented. One peat is radiocarbon-dated to 34-39 ka sp, which prompts correlation with the Hengelo-Denekamp sequence of NW continental Europe, but the pollen evidence, revealing the presence of a birch-pine woodland, suggests an earlier stage. The second peat deposit records an open shrub-tundra in which Bruckenthalia spiculifolia is present. The peat yielded a radiocarbon date of 40-51 ka sp, but is suspected of having been contaminated by younger carbon. That suspicion and the presence of Bruckenthalia suggest that a correlation, based on the radiocarbon date, with the Glinde interstadial, identified in NW Germany, would be incorrect. Correlation with other Scottish pre-late Devensian sites has proved to be difficult.