TY - JOUR
T1 - Lateglacial vegetation change in East Yorkshire: a radiocarbon dated pollen sequence from Routh Quarry, Beverley
AU - Gearey, Benjamin
PY - 2008/11/1
Y1 - 2008/11/1
N2 - Pollen and radiocarbon analyses of Lateglacial Interstadial deposits from Routh Quarry, East Yorkshire, indicate the growth of open, herb-rich grassland vegetation during the early part of the Interstadial. The subsequent expansion of birch and juniper scrubland appears to have been accompanied by a brief period of landscape stability prior to a contraction in both taxa, probably as a result of a climatic cooling. A series of fluctuations in the representation of birch during the later part of the Interstadial may likewise be related to periods of climatic cooling identified in other proxy records from Britain and Europe. Successional processes at the site resulted in the growth of a brown moss fen, which in turn led to changes in the representation of certain pollen taxa, possibly connected to taphonomic factors resulting from changes in pollen source area as much as actual vegetation change. The transition to the Loch Lomond Stadial is not clearly resolved palynologically,but appears to have led to the destabilization of local soils and the deposition of a clay-silt layer over the fen deposits.
AB - Pollen and radiocarbon analyses of Lateglacial Interstadial deposits from Routh Quarry, East Yorkshire, indicate the growth of open, herb-rich grassland vegetation during the early part of the Interstadial. The subsequent expansion of birch and juniper scrubland appears to have been accompanied by a brief period of landscape stability prior to a contraction in both taxa, probably as a result of a climatic cooling. A series of fluctuations in the representation of birch during the later part of the Interstadial may likewise be related to periods of climatic cooling identified in other proxy records from Britain and Europe. Successional processes at the site resulted in the growth of a brown moss fen, which in turn led to changes in the representation of certain pollen taxa, possibly connected to taphonomic factors resulting from changes in pollen source area as much as actual vegetation change. The transition to the Loch Lomond Stadial is not clearly resolved palynologically,but appears to have led to the destabilization of local soils and the deposition of a clay-silt layer over the fen deposits.
U2 - 10.1144/pygs.57.2.113
DO - 10.1144/pygs.57.2.113
M3 - Article
VL - 57
SP - 113
EP - 122
JO - Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
JF - Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
SN - 0044-0604
ER -