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Twelve pollen assemblage zones are identified in a 229
m deep borehole (BH 81/34) from the Devil’s Hole area in the central North Sea (British sector). The sediment from this borehole is Early to ...Late Pleistocene in age and the observation of massulae from
Azolla filiculoides in sediment with reversed polarity indicates an age younger than the Olduvai geomagnetic event for the entire sequence. The Early Pleistocene sediments were at least partly deposited in the vicinity of a river outlet and can be correlated either with the Eburonian or the Menapian cold stage and with the Bavel interglacial and the Linge glacial within the Bavelian stage in the Dutch stratigraphy. The Middle Pleistocene sequence contains an interval rich in
Abies,
Picea and
Pinus, probably deposited during the end of either Cromerian Complex interglacial IV (Noordbergum) or possibly the Holsteinian. The uppermost 80
m of the core contains high frequencies of pre-Quaternary and deteriorated palynomorphs indicating extensive glacial or glaciofluvially reworked sediment.
Middle Pleistocene sequences from the northernmost (Fladen Ground) and the southernmost (Devil’s Hole area) parts of the British sector of the central North Sea are correlated on the basis of pollen ...biostratigraphy. Four pollen stratigraphies are compared, with reference taken to existing borehole and seismic data. The most pronounced influence of reworked pre-Quaternary sediments are present in an upper interval, rich in pre-Neogene palynomorphs, and in a lower interval, rich in Neogene palynomorphs. This change can be related to Middle Pleistocene glacial periods. The pollen content in the younger interval indicates a British provenance, possibly correlated with the Saalian stage. The pollen content in the older interval indicates derivation from the Scandinavian ice sheet, and may correlate with the Elsterian stage. The pollen stratigraphies between these two intervals reflect a vegetational transition from dwarf shrub heaths and peatlands towards boreal forests, possibly followed by a return to a more open landscape. This pollen stratigraphical succession is best preserved in the Devil’s Hole sequences. In the Fladen Ground the upper part of the sequence may have been glacially eroded. Deposits of Cromerian Complex age occur at base of the Middle Pleistocene sequences.
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Three Early Pleistocene profiles from BGS boreholes 81/29, 81/34 (Devil's Hole area) and 81/26 (Fladen Ground) are correlated with each other on the basis of pollen biostratigraphy and with reference ...to pre-existing palaeomagnetic data. The profiles are also correlated with the pollen-based Dutch composite stratigraphy for which a good correlation with the geomagnetic polarity time scale exists. Comparisons are drawn between existing palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from marine microfossil data from the profiles and from the Dutch pollen stratigraphy. The Devil's Hole boreholes are interpreted as younger than the Olduvai geomagnetic event as massulae of the freshwater fern
Azolla filiculoides, a species that did not appear before that event, is present in a reversed polarity sequence. Considerable freshwater influx at the base of all three pollen profiles can probably be related to delta progradation from the south during Early Pleistocene times. In the Devil's Hole sequences, elevated frequencies of pre-Quaternary spores are also registered in the upper part of this freshwater-influenced interval, indicating the persistence of onshore erosional activity, probably glaciation. This interval is interpreted as of Menapian age, a stage during which increased delta progradation and the first Quaternary regional glaciation occurred in northwestern Europe. A hiatus in the Devil's Hole vicinity separates the Menapian interval from a sequence correlated with the latest part of the Bavel interglacial (Bv 5) i.e., in the upper part of the Jaramillo geomagnetic event. During the earlier phase of the succeeding Linge Glacial strong fluvial discharge at first influenced the Devil's Hole area after which calm arctic to high arctic marine conditions prevailed (as indicated by the marine microfossil data) in a depositional environment influenced by meltwater from the British ice sheet. The later part of the Linge glacial in the Devil's Hole area contains pollen spectra indicating glaciofluvial influences from the Scandinavian ice sheet and foraminiferal assemblages indicating ameliorated climatic conditions.
”Rock carvings under water? Comments on a study of the landscape development and shoreline displacement in Tanum”: A pollen analytical investigation with the aim to reconstruct the environment in the ...Tanum area during the Bronze and Iron Ages, has reached the conclusion that the shore in the area was at 25 meters above present day sea level until 500 BC (Svedhage 1997). If this is correct, a major part of the rock carvings in the area must be younger than the Bronze Age, the previously assumed age. Here, a critical evaluation of the Svedhage investigation is presented, pointing out that the dating of the layers in the lake Grundevatten in Tanum, central in the Svedhage argumentation, can not be maintained. This as the dating is not based on 14C datings of the sediment in the lake but on datings transferred from two other localities 140 and 180 km away. New investigations to determinethe Bronze Age shore line are proposed and until such have confirmed the conclusions drawn by Svedhage they must be regarded as highly uncertain.
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