“…95 %) (Reimer et al, 2013;Stuiver and Reimer, 1993). On some sites, the best interval for peat initiation was calculated by integrated Lithological and Palaeoecological Syntheses (LPS) implying a detailed pollen, macrofossil, diatoms, geomorphological and radiocarbon study at: La Narce du B eage (Dendievel et al, 2019), La Sauvetat, Le P echay, and Marais de Limagne (Beaulieu et al, 1984); Ribains, Collanges, Freycenet, and La Gimberte (Serieyssol et al, 2012;Tourman, 2007). Information was also obtained from textual archives (ARCH) for very recent mires (75e15 years cal.…”