AMS radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis from Zugspitzplatt

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Autores principales: Grüger, Eberhard, Jerz, Hermann
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author Grüger, Eberhard
Jerz, Hermann
author_facet Grüger, Eberhard
Jerz, Hermann
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents On the strongly karstified and almost unvegetated surface of the Zugspitzplatt, at an altitude of about 2290 m in the Wettersteingebirge, there is a doline within which over a period of several thousand years a bed of fine loess-like sediment, almost 1m thick, has accumulated. Notwithstanding the situation of this locality far above the present tree-line, this infill contains quantities of pollen and spores sufficient for pollen analysis without use of any enrichment techniques. Despite poor pollen preservation, it was possible to date the basal layers of this profile on the basis of their pollen assemblages. AMS dating (7415 ± 30 BP) has confirmed that the oldest sediments were laid down during the early Atlantic period, the time of the thermal optimum of the Holocene. At least since that time this site has never been overridden by a glacier. The moraine associated with the Löbben Oscillation between 3400 and 3100 BP - here represented by the so-called Platt Stillstand (Plattstand) - did not quite reach the doline. A diagram shows known Holocene glacial limits. The composition of the pollen assemblages from the two oldest levels with high pollen concentrations strongly suggests that the distance between the doline and the forest was much less during the Atlantic than at present.
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spellingShingle AMS radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis from Zugspitzplatt
Grüger, Eberhard
Jerz, Hermann
Bavaria, Germany; DACH; Dachnowski corer; Frillensee; HAND; Lerchwald1; Lerchwald2; Sampling by hand; Zugspitzplatt
On the strongly karstified and almost unvegetated surface of the Zugspitzplatt, at an altitude of about 2290 m in the Wettersteingebirge, there is a doline within which over a period of several thousand years a bed of fine loess-like sediment, almost 1m thick, has accumulated. Notwithstanding the situation of this locality far above the present tree-line, this infill contains quantities of pollen and spores sufficient for pollen analysis without use of any enrichment techniques. Despite poor pollen preservation, it was possible to date the basal layers of this profile on the basis of their pollen assemblages. AMS dating (7415 ± 30 BP) has confirmed that the oldest sediments were laid down during the early Atlantic period, the time of the thermal optimum of the Holocene. At least since that time this site has never been overridden by a glacier. The moraine associated with the Löbben Oscillation between 3400 and 3100 BP - here represented by the so-called Platt Stillstand (Plattstand) - did not quite reach the doline. A diagram shows known Holocene glacial limits. The composition of the pollen assemblages from the two oldest levels with high pollen concentrations strongly suggests that the distance between the doline and the forest was much less during the Atlantic than at present.
title AMS radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis from Zugspitzplatt
topic Bavaria, Germany; DACH; Dachnowski corer; Frillensee; HAND; Lerchwald1; Lerchwald2; Sampling by hand; Zugspitzplatt
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.728444