Chronology of Vegetation and Paleoclimatic Stages of Northwestern Russia During the Late Glacial and Holocene
Author
Arslanov, Kh A.Saveljeva, L. A.
Gey, N. A.
Klimanov, V. A.
Chernov, S. B.
Chernova, G. M.
Kuzmin, G. F.
Tertychnaya, T. V.
Subetto, D. A.
Denisenkov, V. P.
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1999-01-01Keywords
sporesBog soils
northwestern Russia
Boreal
Leningrad Oblast Russian Federation
Novgorod Russian Federation
Atlantic
gyttja
lake sediments
lacustrine environment
upper Weichselian
Weichselian
Younger Dryas
C 14 C 12
Holocene
microfossils
miospores
palynomorphs
pollen
soils
paleoclimatology
Pleistocene
Russian Federation
upper Pleistocene
Europe
peat
Commonwealth of Independent States
sediments
Cenozoic
Quaternary
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
stable isotopes
absolute age
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Arslanov, K. A., Saveljeva, L. A., Gey, N. A., Klimanov, V. A., Chernov, S. B., Chernova, G. M., ... & Denisenkov, V. (1999). Chronology of vegetation and paleoclimatic stages of northwestern Russia during the Late Glacial and Holocene. Radiocarbon, 41(1), 25-45.Journal
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We have studied 6 reference sections of bog and lake sediments in the Leningrad and Novgorod provinces to develop a geochronological scale for vegetational and paleoclimatic changes in northwestern Russia during the Late Glacial and Holocene. Every 10-cm layer along the peat and gyttja sections (4-8.5 m thick) was investigated palynologically and the great majority of them were radiocarbon dated. Using the data obtained, standard palynological diagrams were plotted and vegetation history reconstructed. The palynozones indicated on the diagrams were related to the climatic periods and subperiods (phases) of the Blytt-Sernander scheme. On the basis of 230 14C dates obtained, we derived the geochronology of climatic periods and phases, as well as the chronology for the appearance and areal distribution of forest-forming tree species. The uppermost peat layers were dated by using the "bomb effect". We compared the stages of Holocene vegetation and paleoclimatic changes discovered for the Leningrad and Novgorod provinces with the those obtained for Karelia, which we had studied earlier using the same methodology.Type
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0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200019317