TY - JOUR

T1 - Late Pleistocene vegetation of the basin of Phlious, NE-Peloponnese, Greece

AU - Urban, Brigitte

AU - Fuchs, Markus

N1 - Funding Information: The study is an outcome of the geoarchaeological Project Phlious ( Fuchs et al., 2000 ) which was funded by the German Ministry for Education, Science and Technology (BMBF; grant no. 03LA9HE2-4). For their support in the field, we would like to acknowledge several people without whom the study would not have been possible: Prof. Dr. G.A. Wagner (Heidelberg Academy of Science), Prof. Dr. A. Lang (University of Liverpool), Dr. A. Papadimitriou (4th Ephorie Nafplion), Dr. Y. Bassiakos (NRC Demokritos), Dr. P. Gaitanakis (General Secretariat, Region Peloponnese), Dr. N. Preston and M. Schmitt. We are indebted to Christine Hatté for calibrating the radiocarbon dates. Special thanks is given to Christiane Hilmer and Barbara Albrecht for laboratory and microscopical assistance, to Katrin Becker for processing and plotting the data with TILIA and to Peter Kershaw for critically reading a draft of the manuscript. We are very indebted to the reviewers C. Tzedakis and C. Mulder for their valuable remarks and suggestions, which contributed largely to the improvement in our manuscript.

PY - 2005/11/1

Y1 - 2005/11/1

N2 - Results of sedimentological and palynological analyses and 14C dating of organic lake sediments of a transect through the basin of Phlious, west-southwest of Corinth (NE-Peloponnese, Greece) are presented. They provide a record of five moist and temperate phases, rich in predominantly deciduous Quercus and Pinus with minor representation of other deciduous and evergreen trees including evergreen oak and shrubs, interrupted by five drier and cooler episodes including Heinrich event (HE) 5, during a period of relatively high but fluctuating lake levels within Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3). The youngest interstadial of the Pleistocene pollen sequence is correlated with GRIP Greenland Interstadial 9 (GI9) with a calibrated age of around 40,000 years BP ( 14C 34,440 yrs BP). In the uppermost part of the Pleistocene sequence the occurrence of HE 4 is rather probable. This initial Pleistocene record from southern Greece is compared with those from central Greece to provide a regional synthesis of vegetation and climatic variation during this part of the last glacial period.

AB - Results of sedimentological and palynological analyses and 14C dating of organic lake sediments of a transect through the basin of Phlious, west-southwest of Corinth (NE-Peloponnese, Greece) are presented. They provide a record of five moist and temperate phases, rich in predominantly deciduous Quercus and Pinus with minor representation of other deciduous and evergreen trees including evergreen oak and shrubs, interrupted by five drier and cooler episodes including Heinrich event (HE) 5, during a period of relatively high but fluctuating lake levels within Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3). The youngest interstadial of the Pleistocene pollen sequence is correlated with GRIP Greenland Interstadial 9 (GI9) with a calibrated age of around 40,000 years BP ( 14C 34,440 yrs BP). In the uppermost part of the Pleistocene sequence the occurrence of HE 4 is rather probable. This initial Pleistocene record from southern Greece is compared with those from central Greece to provide a regional synthesis of vegetation and climatic variation during this part of the last glacial period.

KW - Environmental planning

KW - Heinrich event (HE) 5

KW - Late Quaternary

KW - Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3)

KW - NE-Peloponnese

KW - pollen stratigraphy

KW - southern Greece

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U2 - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.08.001

DO - 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.08.001

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 137

SP - 15

EP - 29

JO - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

JF - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

SN - 0034-6667

IS - 1-2

ER -