Pollen analysis and quaternary research in Scotland |
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| Authors: | MJC Walker |
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| Institution: | Department of Geography, St. David''s University College, Lampeter, Dyfed SA48 7ED, Wales, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | The development of pollen analysis in Scotland and its role in present-day Quaternary studies are examined. Methodological advances in field and laboratory techniques, in the treatment and interpretation of pollen analytical data and in palaeoecological investigations involving pollen analysis are considered in the context of research in Scotland. The applications of pollen analysis in specific areas of Scottish Quaternary research are then discussed. These include the reconstruction of interglacial, interstadial and Late Devensian Lateglacial environments, Flandrian plant migrations and forest history, man and landscape change in the mid- and late Flandrian, the dating of geomorphological events, and the study of land and sea-level changes. |
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