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The Brière Marshlands: a palynological survey *
Author(s) -
VISSET LIONEL
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1988.tb00279.x
Subject(s) - woodland , peat , salt marsh , holocene , marsh , palynology , vegetation (pathology) , estuary , marine transgression , wetland , brackish marsh , halophyte , geography , ecology , geology , physical geography , oceanography , salinity , archaeology , paleontology , pollen , biology , structural basin , medicine , pathology
SUMMARY The work reported here allows the Holocene evolution of a large west French coastal marshland to be reconstructed and demonstrates the landscape changes associated both with the Flandrian transgression and the impact of human settlement from the Neolithic to the present. A sequence of markedly different stages is described, including estuary, schorre (salt marsh or zone of halophytic vegetation covered by the sea only at spring tides) and oak woodland, eventually yielding place to peat growth.