Open AccessLateglacial and Holocene environmental history in the area of Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania)
Author(s) -
Meilutė Kabailienė,
Giedrė Vaikutienė,
Lina Macijauskaitė,
Eugenija Rudnickaitė,
Rimantė Guobytė,
Dalia Kisielienė,
Gražyna Gryguc,
Jonas Mažeika,
Petras Šinkūnas,
Gediminas Motuza
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
baltica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1648-858X
pISSN - 0067-3064
DOI - 10.5200/baltica.2015.28.14
Subject(s) - holocene , macrofossil , geology , sediment , vegetation (pathology) , sedimentary depositional environment , physical geography , pollen , sequence (biology) , geomorphology , paleontology , geography , ecology , structural basin , medicine , genetics , pathology , biology
Pollen, plant macrofossil and carbonate analyses supplemented with 14C dating were applied for Lopaičiai hollow and Pakastuva Lake sediment sequences. The new data obtained from two sediment cores were used to reconstruct vegetation cover and environmental changes during Lateglacial and Holocene in Samogitian Upland (NW Lithuania). Different burial conditions of dead ice blocks caused different time of lake sediment start in studied sites. The depositional and vegetation cover history is traced starting at pre-Allerød time in sediment sequence from Lopaičiai core. However, sediment sequence from Pakastuva core provides paleoenvironmental information starting only from the very beginning of Holocene. The study results bring more light on environmental development during Lateglacial and Holocene of specific ice marginal area, which is interlobate insular upland.