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Abiotic landscape and vegetation patterns in the Netherlands during the Weichselian Late Glacial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

W.Z. Hoek
W.Z. Hoek*
Affiliation:
The Netherlands Centre for Geo-ecological Research (ICG), Faculty of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
*
Present address: The Netherlands Centre for Geo-ecological Research (IGC), Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80015, NL-3508 TC UTRECHT, the Netherlands; e-mail: w.hoek@geog.uu.nl
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The Late Glacial landscape of the Netherlands was a landscape with changing geomorphology and vegetation. Glacial, eolian and fluvial processes in the time before the Late Glacial initially had formed the main landscape types that still existed during the Late Glacial. In these landscape types, geomorphological processes persisted, particularly during intervals when the vegetation cover was discontinuous. Vegetation development initiated soil formation and stabilised the substratum. On the other hand, the abiotic landscape influenced vegetation development, and particularly vegetation patterns.

The Late Glacial vegetation patterns, changing in time, have been reconstructed on the basis of a palynological database containing the data from over 250 pollen diagrams from the Netherlands. Patterns of vegetation and abiotic landscape appear to compare to each other in many instances, indicating the close interrelationship between vegetation and the abiotic landscape.

Keywords

geomorphologyLate Glacialpalynologypaleogeographythe Netherlands
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 79 , Special Issue 4: Geochemical mapping in the Kingdom of the Netherlands , December 2000 , pp. 497 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2000

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