Palaeoecological study of a Middle-Pleniglacial deposit from Tilligte, The Netherlands

Brinkkemper, Otto; Geel, B. van; Wiegers, J.

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“…The development of the local environment at the WGNF site is similar to many studied Middle Pleniglacial deposits (Brinkkemper et al, 1987;Ran, 1990): initially a peatforming wetland developed on top of a sandy deposit, later the wetland developed into a lake, where lacustrine deposits were formed with a considerable clastic component (compare . Finally, the lake deposits were covered by wind-blown coversand.…”

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“…4). All pollen spectra are dominated by cyperaceous pollen, like in other deposits formed during the Pleniglacial interstadials in the Netherlands (Kolstrup, 1980;Ran, 1990;Brinkkemper et al, 1987). The presence of achenes of various Carex species throughout the record and hyphopodia of the fungus Gaeumannomyces (parasite occurring on vegetative parts of Carex species; Pals et al, 1980;Van Geel et al, 1989) indicates that part of the cyperaceous pollen was produced locally or nearby.…”

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Palaeoecological study of a Weichselian wetland site in the Netherlands suggests a link with Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation

Geel

Bos

Huissteden

et al. 2010

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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CopyrightOther than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons).Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. IntroductionIn 2004 a large, more than 4 m deep building excavation was made in Wageningen ( Fig. 1) in order to prepare the foundation of a new university building (so-called Forum Building). Dr Monique Heijmans of the Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group of Wageningen University informed the first author about a peat deposit, covered by a lake deposit, as it was exposed in the profiles of the building excavation. The Wageningen-Forum site is situated in a former Saalian tongue basin. During the Weichselian this basin was filled in with alternating fluvial meltwater deposits from the ice-pushed ridges and aeolian cover sands. During relatively humid phases drain water from the ice-pushed ridges caused seepage in the basin and therefore lakes and fens could develop in the depressions in the landscape. Lake sediments and peat deposits were overblown with sand during periods of aeolian activity. The Forum site shows an example of well-preserved peat and lake sediments covered by aeolian sand. In the same tongue basin northwest of Veenendaal a peat deposit of Allerød AbstractBotanical microfossils, macroremains and oribatid mites of a Weichselian interstadial deposit in the central Netherlands point to a temporary, sub-arctic wetland in a treeless landscape. Radiocarbon dates and OSL dates show an age between ca. 54.6 and 46.6 ka cal BP. The vegetation succession, starting as a peat-forming wetland that developed into a lake, might well be linked with a Dansgaard-Oeschger climatic cycle. We suggest that during the rapid warming at the start of a D-O cycle, relatively low areas in the landscape became wetlands where peat was formed.During the more gradual temperature decline that followed, evaporation diminished; the wetlands became inundated and lake sediments were formed. During subsequent sub-arctic conditions the interstadial deposits were covered with wind-blown sand. Apart from changes in effective precipitation also the climate-related presence and absence of permafrost conditions may have played a role in the formation of the observed sedimentological sequence from sand to peat, through lacustrine sediment, with coversand on top. The Wageningen sequence may correspond with D-O event 12, 13 or 14. Some hitherto not recorded microfossils were described and illustrated.Keywords: Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles, macrofossils, non-pollen palynomorphs, Oribatida, pollen...

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Palaeoecological study of a Weichselian wetland site in the Netherlands suggests a link with Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation

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Huissteden

et al. 2010

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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“…Taking into account the presence of Myriophyllum spicatum pollen and the presence of Batrachium sp. fruit, it can be concluded that the minimum mean July temperature in this period oscillated around 10°C (Kolstrup 1979(Kolstrup , 1980Brinkkemper et al 1987). The cold period is also shown by the presence of macro-and microspores of Selaginella selaginoides, which is a typical species of tundra vegetation (Tobolski 2006;Stančikait_ e et al 2009;Gaidamavičius et al 2011;Mortensen et al 2011).…”

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Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity and lake-level changes at Jezioro Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multi-proxy data

Gałka

Tobolski

Zawisza

et al. 2013

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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“…In this method the relationship between the geographical limit of plant distribution and temperature is used, i.e., plants require a minimum mean summer temperature to £ower and reproduce. Palaeotemperature data (Table 4) were obtained from Dahl (1951), Iversen (1954), Bell (1970), Vorren (1978), Kolstrup (1979Kolstrup ( , 1980, Odgaard (1982), Brinkkemper et al (1987) and Isarin and Bohncke (1999). Layer 1: The botanical assemblage in the basal part of the microfossil diagram from Location 2, site 1 (PAZ SO-1, 29^34 cm; Figs.…”

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“…Saxifraga oppositifolia Vorren, 1978 7 Selaginella selaginoides Kolstrup, 1979Kolstrup, , 1980 Parnassia palustris Kolstrup, 1979Kolstrup, , 1980 Betula nana Brinkkemper et al, 1987;Ran, 1990 7.3 Lycopodium alpinum/annotinum Vorren, 19787.4 Papaver Vorren, 1978 Sagina caespitosa Vorren, 19787.7 Empetrum Vorren, 1978 Thalictrum alpinum Vorren, 1978 8 Potamogeton ¢liformis Kolstrup, 1979Kolstrup, , 1980 Caltha palustris Kolstrup, 1980 8 Cornus suecica Kolstrup, 1980 8 Ranunculus hyperboreus Brinkkemper et al, 1987 8 Astragalus alpinus Vorren, 1978 8 Juniperus communis Iversen, 1954; Isarin and Bohncke, 1999 10 (taller plants) Kolstrup, 1980 9.1 Koenigia islandica Vorren, 1978 9^10 Myriophyllum alterni£orum Kolstrup, 1980;Isarin and Bohncke, 1999 9^10 Sanguisorba o⁄cinalis Kolstrup, 1979Kolstrup, , 1980 10 Aulacomnium turgidum Odgaard, 1982 10 Ranunculus subgen. Batrachium Brinkkemper et al, 1987 10 Myriophyllum spicatum Kolstrup, 1980 13 Schoenoplectus lacustris/tabernaemontani Iversen, 1954 16 Groenlandia densa Bell, 1970 7.2.…”

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Flora, fauna and climate of Scotland during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial – palynological, macrofossil and coleopteran investigations

Bos

Dickson

Coope

et al. 2004

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Thin lenses of organic-rich material, on the upper surface of a layer of glacio-fluvial deposits have been studied in an open cast coal-mine near Sourlie, western Scotland. Radiocarbon dates on antler fragments, plant debris and bulk organic matter from silt, showed that the sediments accumulated between ca. 33 500 and 29 000 14 C yr BP, during a period when this part of western Scotland was free of glaciers. The organic-rich sediments yielded a very rich flora and fauna and in total about 160 plant taxa and 61 coleopteran taxa were recorded together with other invertebrates. The Sourlie flora is one of the richest late Middle Weichselian floras yet studied within the British Isles. Leg bones of Coelodonta antiquitatis (woolly rhinoceros) and Rangifer tarandus (reindeer) were also found at the site. During this period, the landscape was treeless and the vegetation could be characterised as an intermediate between a low shrub tundra and sedge^grass^moss tundra. Both the flora and arthropod fauna suggest that during formation of the organic-rich layers at Sourlie, mean July temperatures were 9^10 ‡C. The flora suggests also that at the beginning of formation of these layers, minimum mean July temperatures increased from 7 to 9^10 ‡C, but later dropped again to 7^8 ‡C. A possible time correlation with one of the warmer periods of the Dansgaard^Oeschger cycles in the stable oxygen isotope record of the Greenland ice cores during this period is proposed. The arthropod fauna suggests that mean January temperatures were somewhere between 334 and 311 ‡C. Mean annual temperatures lay probably between 31 and 310 ‡C, which implies the possible presence of discontinuous or continuous permafrost in the area. During winter, a protective snow cover of varying thickness probably enabled perennial plants, especially shrubs, to survive. ß

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Palaeoecological study of a Middle-Pleniglacial deposit from Tilligte, The Netherlands

Cited by 37 publications

References 8 publications

Palaeoecological study of a Weichselian wetland site in the Netherlands suggests a link with Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation

Palaeoecological study of a Weichselian wetland site in the Netherlands suggests a link with Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation

Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity and lake-level changes at Jezioro Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multi-proxy data

Flora, fauna and climate of Scotland during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial – palynological, macrofossil and coleopteran investigations

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