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Palaeoecological study of a Weichselian wetland site in the Netherlands suggests a link with Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

B. van Geel ,
J.A.A. Bos ,
J. van Huissteden ,
J.P. Pals ,
H. Schatz ,
J.M. van Mourik ,
G.B.A. van Reenen ,
J. Wallinga  and
J. van der Plicht
B. van Geel*
Affiliation:
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
J.A.A. Bos
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeoclimatology and Geomorphology, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlandsalso at ADC Archeoprojecten, Nijverheidsweg-Noord 114, 3812 PN Amersfoort, the Netherlands
J. van Huissteden
Affiliation:
Section Hydrology and Geo-Environmental Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, de Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
J.P. Pals
Affiliation:
Amsterdams Archeologisch Centrum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, the Netherlands
H. Schatz
Affiliation:
Institut für Ökologie, Leopold Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
J.M. van Mourik
Affiliation:
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
G.B.A. van Reenen
Affiliation:
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
J. Wallinga
Affiliation:
Netherlands Centre for Luminescence dating, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 15, NL-2629 JB Delft, the Netherlands
J. van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlandsalso at Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
*
Email: b.vangeel@uva.nl.
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Botanical microfossils, macroremains and oribatid mites of a Weichselian interstadial deposit in the central Netherlands point to a temporary, sub-arctic wetland in a treeless landscape. Radiocarbon dates and OSL dates show an age between ca. 54.6 and 46.6 ka cal BP. The vegetation succession, starting as a peat-forming wetland that developed into a lake, might well be linked with a Dansgaard-Oeschger climatic cycle. We suggest that during the rapid warming at the start of a D-O cycle, relatively low areas in the landscape became wetlands where peat was formed. During the more gradual temperature decline that followed, evaporation diminished; the wetlands became inundated and lake sediments were formed. During subsequent sub-arctic conditions the interstadial deposits were covered with wind-blown sand. Apart from changes in effective precipitation also the climate-related presence and absence of permafrost conditions may have played a role in the formation of the observed sedimentological sequence from sand to peat, through lacustrine sediment, with coversand on top. The Wageningen sequence may correspond with D-O event 12, 13 or 14. Some hitherto not recorded microfossils were described and illustrated.

Keywords

Dansgaard-Oeschger cyclesmacrofossilsnon-pollen palynomorphsOribatidapollenWeichselian
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 89 , Issue 3-4 , December 2010 , pp. 187 - 201
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2010

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