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Quaternary stratigraphy of Norden, a proposal for terminology and classification
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In this paper, a proposal for a common chronostratigraphical classification of the Quaternary in Norden (and partly continental NW Europe) is made, based on the sequence of glacials/interglacials.Abstract:
Principles and terminology for classification of the Quaternary are discussed, including lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy. morphostratigraphy, climatostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy. The main conclusion is a proposal for a common chronostratigraphical classification of the Quaternary in Norden (and partly continental NW Europe). The Quaternary is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Series. The Pleistocene is further subdivided into several provisional stages (Weichselian, Eemian, etc.), based on the sequence of glacials/interglacials. but with the boundaries preferably defined by stratotypes. The Late Weichselian and the Flandrian (Holocene) are subdivided into chronozoncs (Bolling, Older Dryas, Allerod, Younger Dryas, Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal, Subatlantic) with the boundaries dcfined in conventional radiocarbon years.read more
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Reconstruction of palaeoecological changes in Lake Łebsko on the basis diatom analysis (the southern Baltic coast, Poland)
TL;DR: In this paper, diatom assemblages occurring in core Łeb1 of Late-glacial and Holocene deposits from Lake Łebsko, off the southern coast of the Baltic Sea are presented.
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Quantitative reconstructions of the last glaciation of the Barents Sea: a review of ice-sheet modelling problems
TL;DR: A review of reconstructions of the last Barents ice mass, and compares these models with geological and palaeoceanographic information from the area in order to provide a summary of what is presently known, and to indicate explicitly what is not known.
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Late Glacial and Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in landslide fens deposits in the Polish Outer Western Carpathians (Southern Poland)
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Some comments on the palynostratigraphy of the Holocene in Poland, based on isopollen maps
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Asynchronous development of two Late Glacial lake basins near the Drwęca ice-marginal valley (N Poland)
TL;DR: In this article, Lacustrine sedimentation started during the AllerÝd at Gronowo and during the Preboreal at Piotrkowo, and the different ages of the two lakes are attributed mainly to differences in the Late Glacial drainage conditions which directly affected the melting away of dead-ice blocks buried in the channels.
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