Open AccessLateglacial and early Holocene lake sediments from the northern Apennines, Italy – pollen stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating
Author(s) -
LOWE J. JOHN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1992.tb00028.x
Subject(s) - geology , radiocarbon dating , younger dryas , holocene , chronology , paleontology , glacial period , pollen , interglacial , palynology , ecological succession , physical geography , stratigraphy , pleistocene , structural basin , geography , ecology , biology , tectonics
Radiocarbon‐dated pollen profiles are presented from two basins in Prato Spilla, near Val Parma in the northern Apennines. One basin contains a complete Holocene succession, the other a full Lateglacial to mid‐Holocene record. The data provide the most comprehensive Lateglacial‐early Holocene pollenstratigraphic succession yet reported from the northern Apennines accompanied by an internally consistent radiocarbon chronology. They provide fresh impetus for (a) a discussion of the strength of the Younger Dryas ‘signal’ in pollen‐stratigraphic profiles from southern Europe, (b) an assessment of the palaeovegetation of northern Italy during the last glacial‐interglacial transition, and (c) the altitude of the snowline in the region during the Younger Dryas.