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

• 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

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.