Tracking Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental change: a palaeolimnological study of sediment at Preluca Tiganului, NW Romania

Palaeoecological, palaeohydrological, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Glacial and the early Holocene have been performed from sediment accumulated in a small former crater lake, in the GutâI Mountains, NW Romania. Pollen, lithology, mineral magnetic, and loss-on-ignition analyses...

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Published in:Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia
Main Author: Feurdean, Angelica
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Digital Commons @ University of South Florida 2012
Subjects:
lake-level fluctuation
local vegetation development
climate
Late Glacial/early Holocene
Preluca Ţiganului
Romania
Earth Sciences
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Crater Lake
Greenland
Greenland ice core
ice core
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geologia/vol50/iss1/art1
https://doi.org/10.5038/1937-8602.50.1.1
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/geologia/article/1233/viewcontent/feurdean.pdf
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Summary:Palaeoecological, palaeohydrological, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Glacial and the early Holocene have been performed from sediment accumulated in a small former crater lake, in the GutâI Mountains, NW Romania. Pollen, lithology, mineral magnetic, and loss-on-ignition analyses in conjunction to radiocarbon dating have been use for this purpose. The data indicates that during the Late Glacial period, vegetation dynamics were likely driven by climatic fluctuations. The climate events during the Late Glacial are well mirrored in local vegetation assemblage development, and past lake level fluctuations. These climatic events recorded in south-eastern Europe, are well correlated with the climate events from the North Western Europe and Greenland ice core stratigraphy.

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